blimbing (blimbing)

Same as bilimbi. blin1t (blin), v. [ I 'gan cry ere I blin , O, her eyes are paths to sin! IMG:content-2184.png:[blocks in formation] or judge. I am full blynde in Poets Arte, thereof I can no skill: All elloquence I put apart, following myne owne wyll. Rhodes , Boke of Nurture (E. E. T. S.), p. 71. At a solemn proce ion I have wept abundantly, while my consorts, blind with opposition and prejudice, have fallen into an acce of scorn and laughter. Sir T. Browne, Religio Medici, i. 3. He fought his doubts and gather'd strength, He would not make his judgment blind . Tennyson, In Memoriam, xevi. 3. Not directed or governed by sight, physical or mental; not proceeding from or controlled by reason: as, blind groping; blind tenacity. That which is thought to have done the Bishops hurt, is their going about to bring men to a blind obedience. Selden , Table-Talk, p. 23. Specifically-4. Undiscriminating; heedle ; inconsiderate; unreflecting; headlong. His feare of God may be as faulty as a blind zeale. Milton, Eikon ok las tes, ix. This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. Jay. 5. Not po e ing or proceeding from intelligence or consciousne ; without direction or control; irrational; fortuitous: as, a blind force or agency; blind chance.-6. Filled with or enveloped in darkne ; dark; obscure; not easily discernible: as, a blind corner. [Archaic.] The blind cave of eternal night. Shak ., Rich. III., v. 3. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton, Comus, 1. 181. Mr. Pierce hath let his wife's closet, and the little blind bedchamber, and a garret, to a silk-man for 50l. fine, and 30l. per annum. Pepys , Diary, II. 459. Hence-7. Difficult to see, literally or figuratively; hard to understand; hard to make out; unintelligible: as, blind outlines; blind writing; blind reasoning. Written in such a queer blind. hand. Hawthorne, Grandfather's Chair. 8t. Unlighted: as, blind candles.-9. Covered; concealed from sight; hidden. On the blind rocks are lost. Dryden. 10t. Out of sight or public view; out of the way; private; secret. A blind place where Mr. Golds borough was to meet me. Pepys, Diary, Oct. 15, 1661. I was forced to go to a blind chophouse, and dine for tenpence. Swift , Journal to Stella, Letter 5. 11. Without openings for admitting light or seeing through: as, a blind window; blind walls," Tennyson, Godiva.-12. Not serving any apparent purpose; wanting something ordinarily e ential to completene ; not fulfilling its purpose: as, a blind shell, one that from a bad fuse or other reason has fallen without exploding.-13. Closed at one end; having no outlet; cæcal: as, a blind alley. Blind proce es... from both the sides and ends of Owen, Anat. Vert. the air-bladder. Offenders were supposed to be incarcerated behind an iron-plated door, closing up a second prison, consisting of a strong cell or two and a blind alley some yard and a half wide. Dickens, Little Dorrit, vi. Blind arcade. See arcade. - Blind arch. See arch1. - Blind area, a space about the basement of a house designed to prevent moisture from reaching the walls of the building; an ambit. - Blind axle. See axle. Blind beetle, a name given to two insects: (a) the cockchafer (Melolontha vulgar is ), so called because it flies against persons as if it were blind; (6) a small chestnut-colored beetle destitute of eyes, found in rice. --Blind blocking. See blocking. Blind buckler, the stopper of a hawse Greene, Penitent Palmer's Ode. hole. - Blind bud, an abortive bud; a bud that bears II. trans. To put a stop to. For nathemore for that spectacle bad Did th' other two their cruell venge a unce blin , But both attonce on both sides him bestad. Spenser, F. Q., III. v. 22. IMG:content-2185.png:[blocks in formation] blin2 (blin), a. A Scotch form of blind. blind1 (blind), a. [ They be blind leaders of the blind. Mat. xv. 14. Hence-2. Figuratively, lacking in the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual, no bloom or fruit. Hence plants are said by florists to go blind when they fail to form flower-buds.- Blind coal, coal altered by the pa age of a trap dike through or near it. [Eng.] - Blind copy, in printing, obscurely written copy; any copy hard to read. Blind door. See blind window, below. - Blind fire, fuel arranged on the grate or fireplace in such a manner as to be easily ignited on the application of a lighted match. - Blind holes, holes, as to be riveted, which are not coincident. - Blind lantern, a dark or unlighted lantern.-Blind level, in mining, a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end and acts as an inverted siphon.Blind plants, abortive plants; plants, as of the cabbage and other members of the genus Bra ica, which have failed to produce central buds. - Blind side, the weak or unguarded side of a person or thing. All people have their blind side - their superstitions. Lamb, Opinions on Whist. Blind spot, the point in the retina, not sensitive to light, at which the optic nerve enters the eye. - Blind stitch. (a) A stitch taken on the under side of any fabric in such a way that it is not seen. (6) Ornamental sewing on leather, designed to be seen on only one side of the material. Blind story. (a) A pointle tale. (b) Same as blind story. Blind tooling. See tooling. - Blind ve el, in chem., a ve el with an opening on one side only. Blind window, door, in arch., a feature of design introduced for the sake of symmetry or harmony, identical in treat ment and ornament with a true window or door, but closed with a wall. make blind, deceive (= D. blinden = OFries. blind a = OHG. blinden, become blind, = Dan. blinde = Goth. ga - blind jan, make blind), The curtain drawn, his eyes begun To wink, being blinded with a greater light. Shak ., Lucrece, 1. 375. 2. To dim the perception or discernment of; make morally or intellectually blind. And thou shalt take no gift for the gift blindeth the wise, and pervert eth the words of the righteous. Ex. xxiii. 8. Superstition hath blinded the hearts of men. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 599. Tennyson, Ode to Memory, v. 3. To render dark, literally or figuratively; obscure to the eye or to the mind; conceal. Such darkne blinds the sky. Whom pa ion hath not blinded. Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavoured, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stilling fleet . 4. To dim or obscure by exce of light; outshine; eclipse. [Rare.] Thirsil, her beauty all the rest did blind , That she alone seem'd worthy of my love. P. Fletcher , Piscatory Eclogues, vi. Thy sweet eyes brighten slowly close to mine, Ere yet they blind the stars. Tennyson, Tithonus. 5. In road - making, to fill with gravel, as interstices between stones; cover with gravel or earth: as, to blind road-metal.-6. In gunnery, to provide with blindages. - Blinded battery. See battery. II. in trans. To become blind or dim. That ho [ she , a pearl] blyndes of ble in bour ther ho lygges, No-bot wasch hir wyth wourchyp in wyn as ho askes. Alliterative Poems (ed. Morris), ii. 1126. blind1 (blind), n. [ If I have an ancient window overlooking my neighbour's ground, he may not erect any blind to obstruct the light. Black stone, Com., II. 26. Specifically-(a) A screen of some sort to prevent too strong a light from shining in at a window, or to keep people from seeing in; a sun-screen or shade for a window, made of cloth, laths, etc., and used either inside or outside. ( b ) One of a pair of pieces of leather, generally square, attached to a horse's bridle on either side of his head to prevent him from seeing sidewise or backward; a blinder or blinker. (c) A strong plank shutter placed in front of a port-hole as soon as the gun has been discharged. 2. Something intended to mislead the eye or the understanding by concealing, or diverting attention from, the principal object or true design; a pretense or pretext. Making the one a blind for the execution of the other. Decay of Christ. Piety. 3. A hiding-place; an ambush or covert, especially one prepared for concealing a hunter or fowler from his game. So when the watchful shepherd, from the blind , Wounds with a random shaft the carele hind. Dryden, Æneid, iv. 4. Milit., a kind of bomb-proof shelter for men or material; a blindage. A single blind is commonly made of three strong perpendicular posts with planks between them, covered with plates of iron on the outside, rendering them shot-proof. It is used as a protection to laborers in the trenches. A double blind is made by filling large wooden chests with earth or bags of sand. 5. In the game of poker, the stake deposited in the pool previous to the deal. - Stamped in the blind, in bookbinding, said of ornaments to be printed in ink when the pattern is first stamped with a heated die, preparatory to a second stamping in ink of the same design over the first. - Venetian blinds, window-blinds or shades made of thin light laths or strips of wood fixed on strips of webbing. blind2 (blind), n. Same as blende. blindage (blin'dāj), n. [ When a trench has to be pushed forward in a position where the command of the dangerous point is so great that it cannot be sheltered from the plunging fire by traverses, it is covered on the top and on the sides by fascines and earth supported by a framework, and is termed a blindage . Farrow , Mil. Encyc. 2. A hood so arranged that it can be made to cover the eyes of a horse if he e ays to run IMG:content-2186.png:[blocks in formation] A person... is apt to attribute to the blind -born... such habits of thought. as his own. Whately , Rhetoric.