Helen Fenton

Blind: Definition and part of speech

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Blind

  1. a. Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
  2. a. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
  3. a. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
  4. a. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
  5. a. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
  6. a. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
  7. a. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
  8. a. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
  9. n. A halting place.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blinding: Definition and part of speech

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Blinding

  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Blind
  2. a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blindage: Definition and part of speech

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Blindage

  1. n. A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blinder: Definition and part of speech

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Blinder

  1. n. One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.
  2. n. One who, or that which, blinds.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blindfish: Definition and part of speech

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Blindfish

  1. n. A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.