4. A halting place. [Obs.] Dryden.
Blind
(Blind, Blinde) n. See Blende.
Blindage
(Blind"age) n. [Cf. F. blindage.] (Mil.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach,
formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
Blinder
(Blind"er) n.
1. One who, or that which, blinds.
2. (Saddlery) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a
blinker.
Blindfish
(Blind"fish`) n. A small fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the
Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
Blindfold
(Blind"fold`) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blindfolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blindfolding.] [OE. blindfolden,
blindfelden, blindfellen; AS. blind blind + prob. fellan, fyllan, to fell, strike down.] To cover the eyes
of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.
And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face.
Luke xxii. 64.
Blindfold
(Blind"fold`), a. Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as,
blindfold zeal; blindfold fury.
Fate's blindfold reign the atheist loudly owns.
Dryden.
Blinding
(Blind"ing), a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as,
blinding tears; blinding snow.
Blinding
(Blind"ing), n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v.
t., 4.
Blindly
(Blind"ly), adv. Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge,
or purpose of one's own.
By his imperious mistress blindly led.
Dryden.
Blindman's buff
(Blind"man's buff") [See Buff a buffet.] A play in which one person is blindfolded, and
tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is.
Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open.
Stillingfleet.
Blindman's holiday
(Blind`man's hol"i*day) The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]
Blindness
(Blind"ness) n. State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin.
Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
Blindstory
(Blind"sto`ry) n. (Arch.) The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
Blindworm
(Blind"worm`) n. (Zoöl.) A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with
minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; — formerly a name for the adder.
Newts and blindworms do no wrong.
Shak.
