Destitute of the sense of sight, whether by natural defect or by deprivation, permanently or temporarily; not having sight.Hence Figuratively, lacking in the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual, moral, or spiritual sight; unable to understand or judge.Not directed or governed by sight, physical or mental; not proceeding from or controlled by reason: as, blind groping; blind tenacity.Specifically Undiscriminating; heedless; inconsiderate; unreflecting; headlong.Not possessing or proceeding from intelligence or consciousness; without direction or control; irrational; fortuitous: as, a blind force or agency; blind chance.Filled with or enveloped in darkness; dark; obscure; not easily discernible: as, a blind corner.Hence Difficult to see, literally or figuratively; hard to understand; hard to make out; unintelligible: as, blind outlines; blind writing; blind reasoning.Unlighted: as, blind candles.Covered; concealed from sight; hidden.Out of sight or public view; out of the way; private; secret.Without openings for admitting light or seeing through: as, a blind window; “blind walls,”Not serving any apparent purpose; wanting something ordinarily essential to completeness; not fulfilling its purpose: as, a blind shell, one that from a bad fuse or other reason has fallen without exploding.Closed at one end; having no outlet; cæcal: as, a blind alley.a small chestnut-colored beetle destitute of eyes, found in rice.Ornamental sewing on leather, designed to be seen on only one side of the material.Same as blind-story.To make blind; deprive of sight; render incapable of seeing, wholly or partially.To dim the perception or discernment of; make morally or intellectually blind.To render dark, literally or figuratively; obscure to the eye or to the mind; conceal.To dim or obscure by excess of light; outshine; eclipse.In road-making, to fill with gravel, as interstices between stones; cover with gravel or earth: as, to blind road-metal.In gunnery, to provide with blindages.To become blind or dim.n. Anything which obstructs the sight, intercepts the view, or keeps out light.n. Specifically— 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.n. 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.n. A strong plank shutter placed in front of a port-hole as soon as the gun has been discharged.n. 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.n. A hiding-place; an ambush or covert, especially one prepared for concealing a hunter or fowler from his game.n. Milit., a kind of bomb-proof shelter for men or material; a blindage.n. 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.n. In the game of poker, the stake deposited in the pool previous to the deal.n. Same as blende.In horticulture, said of a shoot that does not bloom.