BLIND, BLINDED, BLINDING, BLINDLY, BLINDNESS
(also see SIGHT)
ADJECTIVES
1382 ► DARK partially or totally blind; sightless → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1400 ► SAND-BLIND half-blind, dim-sighted, purblind → arch. exc. Eng. dial.
1508 ► SPURBLIND almost blind; partially sighted → obs.
1592 ► SAND-EYED half-blind, sand-blind, dim-sighted → obs.
1600 ► GRAVEL-BLIND almost entirely blind → literary usage
1610 ► MOON-EYED partially blind
1629 ► SANDED half-blind, sand-blind, dim-sighted → obs.
1634 ► BESOTTED intellectually or morally blinded
1692 ► DUNCH blind; having impaired vision → obs.
1750 ► BISSON blind → Eng. dial.
1809 ► BLOUND blinded → Eng. dial.
1834 ► BAT-BLIND blind as a bat in the sunlight
1838 ► MOLE-BLIND blind as a mole → Eng. dial.
1850 ► BLIND AS A BRICKBAT blind
1879 ► BLIND AS A BEETLE completely blind → Eng. dial.
1898 ► BIZZEN-BLIND almost blind → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
20C.. ► ALL BEHIND blind → Brit. rhyming sl.
1911 ► BELLY-BLIND quite blind → Sc. (Bk.)
1972 ► GOOCH-EYED blind in one eye → US sl.
1990 ► BACON (RIND) blind → rhyming sl.
ADVERBS
1911 ► BLINDLINS → BLINLINS blindly → Sc. (Bk.)
NOUNS
1608 ► OCCAECATION → OCCECATION the act of blinding; a blinded condition → obs.
1616 ► ABLEPSY blindness, physical or mental → literary usage
1866 ► ABACINATION ablinding by means of red-hot irons held before the eyes
NOUNS, PERSON
1790 ► BLINKARD a person blind of one eye; a near-sighted person → Eng. dial.
1807 ► DARKEY → DARKY a blind man → Eng. dial.
1855 ► BISNE a blind person → obs. (Bk.)
1950 ► ONE EYE AND A WINKLE a blind person, or a person with one eye → sl.
NOUNS, PERSON, OTHER
1991 ► TYPHLOPHILE a person who devotes himself to helping the blind (Bk.)
VERBS
1175 ► ABLIND to grow blind → obs.
1374 ► DARK to blind; to darken the eyes or vision → obs.
1661 ► OCCAECATE → OCCECATE to blind → obs.
1848 ► BLINK to blind → Eng. dial.
1888 ► ABACINATE to blind by placing hot irons or metal plates, in front of the eyes (Bk.)
1898 ► BLENCH to blind → Eng. dial. (Bk.)