Blind

From Old English blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz. Akin to German blind, Old High German blint.

Full definition of blind

(not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

ShakespeareHe that is strucken blind cannot forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.
1883, Robert_Louis_Stevenson, ,He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...

(not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
(comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.The lovers were blind to each other's faults.Authors are blind to their own defects.
(not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.a blind path; a blind ditch; a blind corner

(not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end; as, a blind hole, a blind alley.
(not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.a blind wall, open only at one end; a blind alley; a blind gut
smallest or slightest in phrases such asI shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.''We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.
(not comparable) without any prior knowledge.He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.
(not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.blind deferenceblind punishment

JayThis plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.

Unintelligible or illegible.a blind passage in a book; blind writing
(horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.blind buds; blind flowers

(plural blinds)

A covering for a window to keep out light. The Window blind may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

1956, w, Crime out of Mind Chapter 12, Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.

A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
Any device intended to conceal or hide.a duck blind
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
(military) A blindage.
A halting place.
(baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
(poker) A forced bet.
(poker) A player who is or was forced to make a bet.

(transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?

SouthA blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is ... a much greater.

1890, Rudyard Kipling, If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;Be handy and civil, and then you will findThat it's beer for the young British soldier.

DrydenSuch darkness blinds the sky.
StillingfleetThe state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.

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.