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

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

Example Sentences

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

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

"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 De la Mare, Walter

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 Flammarion, Camille

Yet, wherefore, oh, sand-blind Fortune! hast thou rolled the hypocritical saint in my bank-notes, and hung golden offerings upon her Medusa head, while I, the honest scoundrel, am stripped naked to supply the ovation?

From Faithful Margaret A Novel by Ashmore, Annie

O heavens, this is my true-begotten father! who, being more than sand-blind, high gravel blind, knows me not.

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