blind

Forms

1.Unable to see, or only partially able to see.
- Braille is a writing system for the blind.
- Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.
- He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
2.Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.
- Authors are blind to their own defects.
- The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.
3.Having little or no visibility.
- Helen Keller was blind, deaf and mute.
4.Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
- North Richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.
- 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.

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.
- Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.
- 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.
- It is a piece of wood furnished with two parallel rows of plates, folding over each other, so as to resemble, in some degree, the laths of a blind.
2.A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
3.A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.
- Field biologists use blinds, and so do hunters.
- 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.
4.Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.

Uncommon· #2708

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

Cognate with Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blind, Faroese and Icelandic blindur.