Word Finder - blind

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A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

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A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.

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Any device intended to conceal or hide.

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a duck blind

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Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

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A blindage.

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A halting place.

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The blindside.

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(1800s) No score.

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A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

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The blinds are $10/$20 and the ante is $1.

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A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

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The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.

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(as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.

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To make temporarily or permanently blind.

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Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?

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To curse.

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To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

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To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

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(of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

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(of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.

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Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

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Authors are blind to their own defects.

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Of a place, having little or no visibility.

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a blind corner

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Closed at one end; having a dead end

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a blind gut

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Having no openings for light or passage.

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a blind alley

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(in certain phrases) Smallest or slightest.

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I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.

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Without any prior knowledge.

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He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.

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Unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.

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blind deference

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Unintelligible or illegible.

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a blind passage in a book; blind writing

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Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

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blind buds

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Without seeing; unseeingly.

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Absolutely, totally.

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to swear blind

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(three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.

I was blind to her other side.

How had he ever turned a blind eye to her?

He takes care of sixty little blind girls and seventy little blind boys.

I'm about to go blind reading them old microfilm newspapers.

Books for the blind are very limited in number.

The blind alone could not support it, but it would not take very much money to make up the additional expense.

I'm not going on blind dates or being hooked up with hairy alpha males.

He withdrew his computer and did so, grateful for the woman that helped him out of blind faith.

The little blind children at the Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it; but I did not know this until afterward.

They fly hither and thither in my thought like blind birds beating the air with ineffectual wings.

It is evident that the blind should have a good magazine, not a special magazine for the blind, but one of our best monthlies, printed in embossed letters.

Oedipus fulfils an ancient prophecy in killing his father; he is the blind instrument in the hands of fate.

Mrs. Hopkins did send me lovely ring, I do love her and little blind girls.

I was to be Ceres in a kind of masque given by the blind girls.

Poor Edith is blind and deaf and dumb.

Mysterious doctrines are ascribed by Protestants to scripture; so half of revelation is regarded as matter for blind assent, if another half is luminous in experience.

Surely Alex wasn't blind to the manipulation going on with intent to keep him in Texas.

The deaf and the blind find it very difficult to acquire the amenities of conversation.

The tea brought more than two thousand dollars for the blind children.

The college authorities would not permit Miss Sullivan to read the examination papers to me; so Mr. Eugene C. Vining, one of the instructors at the Perkins Institution for the Blind, was employed to copy the papers for me in braille.

An institute for the deaf and dumb and blind was opened at Raleigh in 1845, and another for the deaf and dumb at Morganton in 1894; by a law of 1907 every deaf child.

It was his suggestion about the newspaper subscription that started the whole business rolling— even if it was blind luck.

But admiration of his talents must not blind us to his moral worthlessness, nor is it right to cast the blame for his excesses on the brutal and vicious society in which he lived.

The Venetians, who contracted for the transport of the crusaders, and whose blind doge Dandolo was first to land in Constantinople, received one-half and onefourth of the divided Greek empire for their spoils.

Olindiadae, with four radial canals and four gonads; manubrium short; ring-canals giving off blind centripetal canals; tentaculocysts enclosed.

The younger child was blind--that was I--and the other was Martha Washington.

They are going to send me some money for a poor little deaf and dumb and blind child.

Then I was like the little blind children who are waiting to enter the kindergarten.

A gentleman in Philadelphia has just written to my teacher about a deaf and blind child in Paris, whose parents are Poles.

It should be said that any double-case watch with the crystal removed serves well enough for a blind person whose touch is sufficiently delicate to feel the position of the hands and not disturb or injure them.

We gladly allowed her to use freely our library of embossed books, our collection of stuffed animals, sea-shells, models of flowers and plants, and the rest of our apparatus for instructing the blind through the sense of touch.

Often I found her, when she had a little leisure, sitting in her favourite corner, in a chair whose arms supported the big volume prepared for the blind, and passing her finger slowly over the lines of Moliere's 'Le Medecin Malgre Lui,' chuckling to herself at the comical situations and humorous lines.

And they said Kutuzov was blind of one eye?

Yes, I will throw you back beyond the Dvina and beyond the Dnieper, and will re- erect against you that barrier which it was criminal and blind of Europe to allow to be destroyed.

What threat is a blind man to you?

They're like blind deer.

Has there ever before been a time when business opportunity was more blind to color, gender, or creed?

We had scarcely arrived at the Perkins Institution for the Blind when I began to make friends with the little blind children.

I will have fun with little blind girls.

I want you to see baby Tom, the little blind and deaf and dumb child who has just come to our pretty garden.

I hear there is a deaf and blind child being educated at the Baltimore Institution.

I will write little blind girls a letter to thank them.

How do the blind girls know what to say with their mouths?

The disadvantages of being deaf and blind were overcome and the advantages remained.

The impact of supplementary prescribing in primary care Pharmacist prescribing a blind alley?

I will hug and kiss little blind girls mr. anagnos will come to see me.

She has none of those nervous habits that are so noticeable and so distressing in blind children.

Little blind girls sent me a pretty work-basket.

Mr. Anagnos went to Louisville Monday to see little blind children.

Is it blind? she asked; for in her mind the idea of being led was associated with blindness.