Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect, or by deprivation; not having sight.

Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable to understand or judge; ignorant; as authors are blind to their own defects. Blind should be followed by to; but it is followed by of, in the phrase, blind of an eye.

Unseen;; out of public view; private; dark; sometimes implying contempt or censure; as a blind corner.

Dark; obscure; not easy to be found; not easily discernible; as a blind path.

Heedless; inconsiderate; undeliberating. This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation or blind reprobation.

In scripture, blind implies not only want of discernment, but moral depravity.

To make blind; to deprive of sight.

To darken; to obscure to the eye. Such darkness blinds the sky.

To darken the understanding; as, to blind the mind.

To darken or obscure to the understanding. He endeavored to blind and confound the controversy.

To eclipse.

Something to hinder the sight. Civility casts a blind over the duty.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding; as, one thing serves as a blind for another.

A screen; a cover; as a blind for a window, or for a horse.