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blinkard|ˈblɪŋkəd|
Also 6 blincarde, blinkarde, blenkard.
[f. blink v. + -ard.]
1. A reproachful name for one who habitually blinks or winks; one who has imperfect sight.
c1510Barclay Mirr. Good Mann. (1570) B j, An one eyed blincarde. 1580Baret Alv. B 819 A Blinkarde, he that hath such eies that the liddes couer a great part of the apple. 1665Char. Holland in Harl. Misc. (1745) V. 575 Among the Blind, the one-ey'd Blinkard reigns. 1688R. Holme Armoury ii. xvii. 427 Blinkard or Blinking, is to have the Eye-lids ever moving: so that there is no perfect sight. 1786Wolcott (P. Pindar) Ode to R.A.'s xi. Wks. 1812 I. 157 Yes Blinkards: and with Lustre shine.
b. transf. A star that shines dimly.
1627Hakewill Apol. iii. vii. §2 In some parts wee see many glorious..starres..in some none but blinkards and obscure ones.
2. fig. One who lacks intellectual perception.
1523Skelton Garl. Laurel I. 610 Brainles blenkards that blow at the cole. 1855Kingsley Westw. Ho! (1861) 180 Calling himself an ass and a blinkard. 1882Blackie in Gd. Words Oct. 640 A race of blinkards, who peruse the case And shell of life, but feel no soul behind.
†3. One who ‘shuts his eyes’ to what is happening, who blinks facts. Obs.
1583Golding Calvin on Deut. xiv. 82 So as God should play the blinkard or shut his Eyes.
4. attrib. or adj., usually fig.
a1529Skelton Balettes 24 Thou blinkerd blowboll; thou wakest to late. 1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 254 Look out with both their eyes, and have no blinkard minds. 1837Carlyle Misc. (1857) IV. 92 A blinkard precipitancy. |