sand-blind

American  

[sand-blahynd] / ˈsændˌblaɪnd /

adjective

1. partially blind; dim-sighted.

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sand-blind British  

adjective

1. not completely blind; partially able to see Compare stone-blind

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Other Word Forms

• sand-blindness
  noun
• sandblindness
  noun

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Etymology

Origin of sand-blind

1350–1400; Middle English; alteration (assimilated to sand ) of Old English *samblind half-blind, equivalent to sam- half- (akin to semi- ) + blind blind

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Example Sentences

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sand-blind

These phenomena are so unexplained, so inexplicable, so incredible, that the simplest plan is to deny them, to attribute them all to fraud or to hallucination, and to believe that all the participators are sand-blind.

From Mysterious Psychic Forces An Account of the Author's Investigations in Psychical Research, Together with Those of Other European Savants by Camille Flammarion

Alack! sir, I am sand-blind, I know you not.

From Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A. by Charles John Kean

This is my true-begotten father, who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind, knows me not: I will try confusions with him.

From The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare

"I am nothing but a skin of bones—nothing to pick," he said, "and all but sand-blind, and therefore could not see to be afraid."

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare

Alack, sir, I am sand-blind, I know you not.”

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

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