Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Unable to see, or only partially able to see. · Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive. · Having little or no visibility. · Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.
Without seeing; unseeingly. · Absolutely, totally. · Without looking at the cards dealt. · As a pastry case only, without any filling.
A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass. · A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc. · A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife. · Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.
To make temporarily or permanently blind. · To curse, swear, use foul language · To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal. · To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz. Cognate with Danish, Dutch, German, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blind, Faroese and Icelandic blindur.
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