And poor old Mr. Lurcher is only unfortunate and half-blind.
He was looking at her, peering in the half-blind fashion he used towards her.
No one was in the house save the half-blind nurse who put them on.
There was no one at home but lame and half-blind grandma Tenney.
Bryant's half-blind, but I know of a doctor who can help him.
Don Feliz, the half-blind guitar teacher, came in the evening.
half-blind and shaking, he made his way to the rail and clung there.
Inside, the Skilly One went like a witch, beak-nosed and half-blind.
It must be all good to us, whatever it may seem to our poor, half-blind hearts and eyes.
Now, at twenty-one, he was half-blind and of little practical help to them.
Old English blind "blind," also "dark, enveloped in darkness, obscure; unintelligent, lacking mental perception," probably from West Germanic *blinda- "blind" (cf. Dutch and German blind, Old Norse blindr, Gothic blinds "blind"), perhaps, via notion of "to make cloudy, deceive," from an extended Germanic form of the PIE root *bhel- (1) "to shine, flash, burn" (see bleach (v.)); cf. Lithuanian blendzas "blind," blesti "to become dark." The original sense, not of "sightless," but of "confused," perhaps underlies such phrases as blind alley (Chaucer's lanes blynde), which is older than the sense of "closed at one end" (1610s). In reference to doing something without seeing it first, by 1840. Of aviators flying without instruments or without clear observation, from 1919. Blindman's bluff is from 1580s.
The twilight, or rather the hour between the time when one can no longer see to read and the lighting of the candles, is commonly called blindman's holiday. [Grose, 1796]Related: Blinded; blinding.
"deprive of sight," early 13c., from Old English blendan "to blind, deprive of sight; deceive," from Proto-Germanic *blandjan (see blind (adj.)); form influenced in Middle English by the adjective. Related: Blinded; blinding.
"a blind person; blind persons collectively," late Old Engish, from blind (adj.). Meaning "place of concealment" is from 1640s. Meaning "anything that obstructs sight" is from 1702.
blind (blīnd)
adj.
Unable to see; without useful sight.
Having a maximal visual acuity of the better eye, after correction by refractive lenses, of one-tenth normal vision or less (20/200 or less on the Snellen test).
Of, relating to, or for sightless persons.
Closed at one end, as a tube or sac.
adjective
adverb
Completely; cold •Most common in the expression rob someone blind: Goddam car was eating me blind (1900s+ esp students)
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