{ Blind, Blinde } (&?;), n. See Blende.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Blind"ing, a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
Blind"ing, n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.
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.
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.
Blind`man's hol"i*day (&?;). The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]
Blind"ness (&?;), n. State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin.
Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
Blind"sto`ry (&?;), n. (Arch.) The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
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.
Blink (&?;), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blinked (&?;); p. pr. & vb. n. Blinking.] [OE. blenken; akin to dan. blinke, Sw. blinka, G. blinken to shine, glance, wink, twinkle, D. blinken to shine; and prob. to D. blikken to glance, twinkle, G. blicken to look, glance, AS. blcan to shine, E. bleak. √98. See Bleak; cf. 1st Blench.]