5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
The blind mazes of this tangled wood.
Milton.
6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a
blind gut.
7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
Blind alley,
an alley closed at one end; a cul- de-sac. — Blind axle, an axle which turns but does
not communicate motion. Knight. — Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp.
at night. — Blind cat (Zoöl.), a species of catfish nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.
— Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. Simmonds. - - Blind door, Blind window,
an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or window,
under Blank, a. — Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at
each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. Knight. — Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead
nettle, under Dead. — Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not
explode. — Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on
which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. — Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless,
burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. — Blind spot (Anat.), the point in
the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. — Blind tooling,
in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; — called also
blank tooling, and blind blocking. — Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.
Blind
(Blind) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinding.]
1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." Tennyson.
A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a
much greater.
South.
2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
Her beauty all the rest did blind.
P. Fletcher.
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
Such darkness blinds the sky.
Dryden.
The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
Stillingfleet.
4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints
between the stones may be filled.
Blind
(Blind) n.
1. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a
window; a blinder for a horse.
2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a
subterfuge.
3. [Cf. F. blindes, p., fr. G. blende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind.] (Mil.) A blindage. See Blindage.