Blind, Mathilde

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• Blind

  ·noun A halting place. II. Blind ·adj Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. III. Blind ·n...

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• Blind

  Blind beggars are frequently mentioned (Matt. 9:27; 12:22; 20:30; John 5:3). The blind are to be tre...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• blind

  A feint, pretence, or shift. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind

  I. A name on the west coast of Scotland for the pogge, or miller's thumb (Cottus cataphractus). ...

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• Blind reader

  ·add. ·- A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. ...

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• Color-blind

  ·adj Affected with color blindness. ·see Color blindness, under Color, ·noun. ...

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• Hoodman-blind

  ·noun An old term for blindman's buff. ...

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• Sand-blind

  ·adj Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. ...

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• Snow-blind

  ·adj Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. ...

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• Star-blind

  ·adj Half blind. ...

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• Stock-blind

  ·adj Blind as a stock; wholly blind. ...

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• Stone-blind

  ·adj As blind as a stone; completely blind. ...

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• Blind Harry or Henry the Minstrel

  (fl. 1470-1492) Is spoken of by John Major in his History of Scotland as a wandering minstrel, skil...

  Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin

• blind cheeks

  The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind excuse

  A poor or insufficient excuse. A blind ale-house, lane, or alley; an obscure, or little known or fre...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind harpers

  Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind cupid

  The backside. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind shark

  or Sand Shark ,n. i.q. Shovel-nose (q.v.). 1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of N...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• blind-worm

  the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• blind-bucklers

  Those fitted for the hawse-holes, which have no aperture for the cable, and therefore used at sea to...

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• blind-harbour

  One, the entrance of which is so shut in as not readily to be perceived. ...

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• blind-rock

  One lying just under the surface of the water, so as not to be visible in calms. ...

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• blind-shell

  One which, from accident or bad fuze, has fallen without exploding, or one purposely filled with lea...

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• blind-stakes

  A sort of river-weir. ...

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• Blind Chapel Court

  See Blanch Appleton Court. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• cupid, blind cupid

  A jeering name for an ugly blind man: Cupid, the god of love, being frequently painted blind. See b...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• blind-your-eyes

  n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• to go it blind

  To accede to any object with out due consideration. Mr. Greeley, in speaking of General Taylor's cla...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.