Totally or partially blind; (sometimes) spec. having vision obscured by a cataract or cataracts.

Destitute of sight; blind.

General, as blind-born, blind-drunk (Sc. blin'-fou), so intoxicated as to see no better than a blind man, blind-eyed, blind-hearted, blind-weary.

Destitute of the sense of sight, whether by natural defect or by deprivation. In comparisons, as blind as a bator †brickbat; also blind as a beetle…

Partially or totally blind; unable to see; sightless; (of the eyesight) failed; dimmed. regional in later use.

Completely blind. Obsolete.

Unable to see; destitute of the power of sight; blind.

= stark blind, adj.

Completely blind. Also figurative.

Blind as a stone; completely blind. literal.

attributive or as adj. blind-beetledness n. the quality of being mentally blind as a beetle. Cf. also beetle-head n. at beetle, n.1 compounds 1c(a).

Blind, sightless; having no means of seeing. Also: not using the eyes; unseeing; (sometimes more generally) undiscriminating. Now rare.

= purblind, adj.

Originally high-gravel-blind, in Shakespeare a jocular intensive synonym for sand-blind, adj. Hence used by later writers for ‘nearly stone-blind’…

That does not see; blind.

blind by nature.

blind as a bat in the sunlight.

Not seeing; lacking sight.

Blind, blinded.

blind (figurative).

Destitute of lamps.

Not using the eyes; blind.

Blind, sightless.

having bat's eyes.

as blind as a stock.

Blind; having impaired vision. See also dunch passage adj. at compounds. Obsolete.

Sightless, unseeing.

Destitute of vision; sightless, blind.

General, as blind-born, blind-drunk (Sc. blin'-fou), so intoxicated as to see no better than a blind man, blind-eyed, blind-hearted, blind-weary.

(a) ? having the eyes fixed or motionless; (b) dull-sighted, ‘blind’ (figurative).

Deprived of or lacking the power of sight; blind.