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Blind
·noun A halting place.
II. Blind ·adj Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
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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
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blind
A feint, pretence, or shift.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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blind
I.
A name on the west coast of Scotland for the pogge, or miller's thumb (Cottus cataphractus).
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Shell
·noun A <<Pod>>.
II. Shell ·vi To fall off, as a shell, crust, ·etc.
III. Shell ·add. ·noun A goug...
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shell
In artillery, a hollow iron shot containing explosive materials, whether spherical, elongated, eccen...
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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
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Blind, Mathilde
(1841-1896)
Poetess, b. at Mannheim, but settled in London about 1849, and pub. several books of po...
Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
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blind cheeks
The breech. Buss blind cheeks; kiss mine a-se.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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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
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blind harpers
Beggars counterfeiting blindness, playing on fiddles, &c.
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blind cupid
The backside.
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blind shark
or Sand Shark
,n. i.q. Shovel-nose (q.v.).
1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods `Fish and Fisheries of N...
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blind-worm
the snake called a slow-worm. N. and S.
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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-stakes
A sort of river-weir.
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Acorn-shell
·noun One of the sessile cirripeds; a barnacle of the genus Balanus. ·see <<Barnacle>>.
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Argus shell
·- A species of shell (Cypraea argus), beautifully variegated with spots resembling those in a peaco...
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Ark shell
·- A marine bivalve shell belonging to the genus Arca and its allies.
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Boat shell
·- A marine univalve shell of the genus Cymba.
II. Boat shell ·- A marine gastropod of the genus Cr...
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Bubble shell
·- A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
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Ear-shell
·noun A flattened marine univalve shell of the genus Haliotis;
— called also sea-ear. ·see <<Abalon...
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Fig-shell
·noun A marine univalve shell of the genus Pyrula, or Ficula, resembling a fig in form.
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Goroon shell
·- A large, handsome, marine, univalve shell (Triton femorale).
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Hard-shell
·adj Unyielding; insensible to argument; uncompromising; strict.
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Ioqua shell
·- The shell of a large Dentalium (D. pretiosum), formerly used as shell money, and for ornaments, b...
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Maara shell
·- A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used...
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Mail-shell
·noun A <<Chiton>>.
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Mask shell
·- Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
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Pouch-shell
·noun A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).
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Rice-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of small white polished marine shells of the genus Olivella.
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Shell-lac
·noun ·Alt. of <<Shellac>>.
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Shell-less
·adj Having no shell.
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Slit-shell
·noun Any species of Pleurotomaria, a genus of beautiful, pearly, spiral gastropod shells having a d...
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Soft-shell
·adj ·Alt. of Soft-shelled.
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Spur-shell
·noun Any one of several species of handsome gastropod shells of the genus Trochus, or Imperator. Th...
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Tongue-shell
·noun Any species of Lingula.
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Top-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of marine top-shaped shells of the genus Trochus, or family Trochi...
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Torpedo shell
·add. ·- A shell longer than a deck-piercing shell, with thinner walls and a larger cavity for the b...
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Trough-shell
·noun Any bivalve shell of the genus Mactra. ·see <<Mactra>>.
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Tube-shell
·noun Any bivalve mollusk which secretes a shelly tube around its siphon, as the watering-shell.
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Tulip-shell
·noun A large, handsomely colored, marine univalve shell (Fasciolaria tulipa) native of the Southern...
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Turban-shell
·noun A sea urchin when deprived of its spines;
— popularly so called from a fancied resemblance to...
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Turnip-shell
·noun Any one of several large, thick, spiral marine shells belonging to Rapa and allied genera, som...
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Turtle-shell
·noun The turtle cowrie.
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Tusk-shell
·noun ·see 2d Tusk, ·noun, 2.
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Valve-shell
·noun Any fresh-water gastropod of the genus Valvata.
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Wedge-shell
·noun Any one of numerous species of small marine bivalves belonging to Donax and allied genera in w...
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Wing-shell
·noun Any pteropod shell.
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Worm-shell
·noun Any species of Vermetus.
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Wreath-shell
·noun A marine shell of the genus Turbo. ·see <<Turbo>>.
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oat-shell
n.
the shell of various species of Columbella, a small marine mollusc used for necklaces.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rice-shell
n.
The name is applied elsewhereto various shells; in Australia it denotes the shell of variousspec...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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rosary-shell
n.
In Europe, the name isapplied to any marine gastropod shell of the genus Monodonta. In Australia...
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shell-grinder
n.
another name for the Port-Jackson Shark (q.v.).
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tooth-shell
n. The name is applied, inEurope, to any species of Dentalium and allied generahaving a tooth-shaped...
Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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to shell out
means to hand over money.
Witness the testimony of Major Noah and others in New York, who prove tha...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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clam-shell
The lips, or mouth. There is a common though vulgar expression in New England, of "Shut your clam-sh...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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bomb-shell
A large hollow ball of cast-iron, for throwing from mortars (distinguished by having ears or lugs, b...
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crow-shell
A fresh-water mussel.
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live-shell
One filled with its charge of powder or other combustible. It is also called a loaded shell.
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loaded-shell
A shell filled with lead, to be thrown from a mortar. The term is also used for live-shells.
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mail-shell
A name for the chiton.
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segment-shell
For use with rifled guns; an elongated iron shell having very thin sides, and built up internally wi...
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shell-fish
A general term applied to aquatic animals having a hard external covering or shell, as whelks, oyste...
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shell-room
An important compartment in ships of war, fitted up with strong shelves to receive the shells when c...
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shell, shrapnel
See shrapnel shell.
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shrapnel shell
Invented by General Shrapnel to produce, at a long range, the effect of common case; whence they hav...
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Blind Chapel Court
See Blanch Appleton Court.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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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
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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
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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.
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roman-lamp shell
name given in Tasmania to abrachiopod mollusc, Waldheimia flavescens, Lamarck.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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tortoise-shell fish
See hand-fish.
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shell of a block
The outer frame or case wherein the sheave or wheel is contained and traverses about its axis.
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