Definition of "blind"

blind

/blaɪnd/

adjective
comparative blinder, superlative blindest
1. (not comparable) Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
  Quotations
  He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
  c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]
  He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...
  1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London, Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883
2. (comparable) Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
3. (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.
  Quotations
  the blind mazes of this tangled wood
  1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903,
4. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
  Quotations
  The naric-hypophysial canal was blind at both ends, and paired olfactory sacs opened into it, as well as a narrow canal from the front of the gut.
  1898, Journal of the Royal Microscopical Society, page 498
  North Richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
  1914, James Joyce, Araby
5. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.
6. (in certain phrases, chiefly in the negative) Smallest or slightest.
7. (not comparable) Without any prior knowledge.
8. (not comparable) Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.
  Quotations
  This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.
  1787–1788, John Jay, The Federalist Papers
9. (sciences) Using blinded study design, wherein information is purposely limited to prevent bias.
10. Unintelligible or illegible.
11. (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.
12. (LGBT, slang) Uncircumcised
noun
plural blinds
1. A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
  Quotations
  A blind bearing the monogram G.V.T. is pulled down over the waiting room window as if still in mourning for the passing of the railway.
  1941 June, “Notes and News: The Derelict Glyn Valley Tramway”, in Railway Magazine, page 279
  Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.
  1956, Delano Ames, chapter 12, in Crime out of Mind‎
2. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
3. Any device intended to conceal or hide.
  Quotations
  A gang of children […] stampede along a slatted path to a blind beside a watering hole: a wooden hut full of long benches with a slot they can peek through, invisible to the animals.
  2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011)
4. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
5. (military) A blindage.
6. A hiding place.
  Quotations
  So, when the watchful shepherd, from the blind, Wounds with a random shaft the careless hind
  1697, Virgil, “The Fourth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
7. (rugby, colloquial) The blindside.
8. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
9. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.
10. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.
verb
third-person singular simple present blinds, present participle blinding, simple past and past participle blinded
1. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.
  Quotations
  A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is […] a much greater.
  May 9, 1686 (date of preaching), Robert South, The Fatal Imposture and Force of Words (sermon)
2. (slang, obsolete) To curse.
  Quotations
  If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind, Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind; Be handy and civil, and then you will find That it's beer for the young British soldier.
  1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Young British Soldier
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
  Quotations
  Such darkness blinds the sky.
  1717, John Dryden [et al.], “(please specify |book=I to XV)”, in Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Fifteen Books. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
  1676, Edward Stillingfleet, A Defence of the Discourse Concerning the Idolatry Practised in the Church of Rome
4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
adverb
comparative more blind, superlative most blind
1. Without seeing; unseeingly.
  Quotations
  It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 196
2. (colloquial) Absolutely, totally.
  Quotations
  It was just robbery with violence, aggravated murder on a great scale, and men going at it blind - as is very proper for those who tackle a darkness.
  1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], part I, page 195
3. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.
4. (cooking, especially in combination with 'bake') As a pastry case only, without any filling.
  Quotations
  If the shell is going to be baked without a filling, “baking the crust blind,” prick the bottom and sides of the crust to allow the steam to escape. Another variation: line the bottom of the crust with parchment paper […]
  2012, Frank D. Conforti, Food Selection and Preparation: A Laboratory Manual, John Wiley & Sons, page 63
  PIE WEIGHTS: When you are baking a crust blind, which means when you are partially or fully baking it without filling (see blind-baking, page 474), you need something to keep the crust from puffing up: weights.
  2013, Dorie Greenspan, Baking: From My Home to Yours, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, page 490

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