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‖ /mhw>, adv. [ See Able. ] Perhaps; possibly. [ Scotch ] Burns. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With an ambling gait. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Bawbling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Insignificant; contemptible. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ OE. blinnen, AS. blinnan; pref. be- + linnan to cease. ] To stop; to cease; to desist. [ Obs. ] Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. blinn. ] Cessation; end. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. blini, bliny or blinis. [ Russian. ] a thin buckwheat pancake made with yeast and usually filled with sour cream and folded over. See also blini. [ PJC ]

a. [ AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin. ] 1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that is strucken blind can not forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more,
That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. [ 1913 Webster ]

This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. Jay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. [ 1913 Webster ]

The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 (Zool.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), 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 Blank 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 (Zool.), 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. F. blindes, p&unr_;., fr. G. blende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind. ] (Mil.) A blindage. See Blindage. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A halting place. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. blindage. ] (Mil.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Blende. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. deprived of one's sight; rendered blind. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, blinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Saddlery) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. Luke xxii. 64. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fate's blindfold reign the atheist loudly owns. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a flexible object placed over the eyes to prevent seeing; usually a strip of cloth wrapped around the head so as to cover the eyes. [ PJC ]

adj. having a blindfold placed over the eyes; -- done to prevent the wearer from seeing.
Syn. -- blindfold. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own. [ 1913 Webster ]

By his imperious mistress blindly led. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Buff a buffet. ] A game in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the other players, and tell who it is. [ 1913 Webster ]

Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

The time between daylight and candle light. [ Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. to attack a person from his blind side; metaphorically, to give a person an unpleasant suprise. He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Arch.) The triforium as opposed to the clearstory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl.; sing. blin. [ Russian. ] Russian pancakes of buckwheat flour and yeast, sometimes made from white flour; they are usually served folded over, with caviar and sour cream on the inside; -- properly, it is a plural word (from the Russian plural of blin) but in America, often used as singular; thus the common plural blinis.
Syn. -- bliny, blinis. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

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. blīcan to shine, E. bleak. √98. See Bleak; cf. 1st Blench. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To wink; to twinkle with, or as with, the eye. [ 1913 Webster ]

One eye was blinking, and one leg was lame. Pope [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To shine, esp. with intermittent light; to twinkle; to flicker; to glimmer, as a lamp. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dew was falling fast, the stars began to blink. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The sun blinked fair on pool and stream . Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To trick; to deceive. [ Scot. ] Jamieson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. blink. See Blink, v. i. ] 1. A glimpse or glance. [ 1913 Webster ]

This is the first blink that ever I had of him. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Gleam; glimmer; sparkle. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

Not a blink of light was there. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Naut.) The dazzling whiteness about the horizon caused by the reflection of light from fields of ice at sea; ice blink. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. pl. [ Cf. Blencher. ] (Sporting) Boughs cast where deer are to pass, to turn or check them. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blind + -ard. ] 1. One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. [ 1913 Webster ]

Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star, which appears and disappears. Hakewill. [ 1913 Webster ]

def>Beer kept unbroached until it is sharp. Crabb. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, blinks. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A blinder for horses; a flap of leather on a horse's bridle to prevent him from seeing objects as his side hence, whatever obstructs sight or discernment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor bigots who but one way see,
through blinkers of authority. M. Green. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Habitually winking. Marlowe. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a typ of small Indian lettuce (Montia lamprosperma) of northern regions.
Syn. -- blinking chickweed, water chickweed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. blintzes. [ Yiddish blintze, fr. Byelorussian blinets, dimin. of Russ. blin. See also blin and blini. ] (Jewish Cookery) a thin wheat pancake folded around a filling (such as cheese or fruit) and sauteed, fried, or baked. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. same as blini.
Syn. -- blini. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. unable to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow.
Syn. -- tritanopic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. inability to distinguish blue and yellow.
Syn. -- tritanopia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. bramline. See Bramble, n. ] (Zool.) The European mountain finch (Fringilla montifringilla); -- called also bramble finch and bramble. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. giving off bubbles; -- of a liquid. [ Narrower terms: foaming, frothing; effervescent; boiling ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. stimulatingly lively, witty, and entertaining; -- of people.
Syn. -- effervescent, scintillating, sparkling, sparkly, vivacious. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

fld>(Zool.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. not skillful in physical movement especially with the hands; as, a bumbling mechanic.
Syn. -- bungling, butterfingered, ham-fisted, ham-handed, handless, heavy-handed, left-handed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. uttered with unrestrained enthusiasm; as, a novel told in burbly panting tones.
Syn. -- effusive, gushing. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. bubbling; -- of sounds, especially of water. [ PJC ]

n. (Metal.) The process of breaking up the flat masses into which wrought iron is first hammered, in order that the pieces may be reheated and wrought into bar iron. [ 1913 Webster ]