Something that keeps things out or hinders sight

Usage examples of blind.

There were few officers aboard the Endymion who turned a blind eye, but when it came to a zealous pursuit of duty, the first lieutenant was the worst.

I have expiated with pleasure on the first steps of the crusaders, as they paint the manners and character of Europe: but I shall abridge the tedious and uniform narrative of their blind achievements, which were performed by strength and are described by ignorance.

Harsh, blinding, actinic, the lights sparked on before they reached the fence.

Looking at it rising across the valley, the straight high walls and towers adazzle in the blinding light, it seemed less a city than an enormous jewel: a monstrous ornament carved of whitest ivory and nestled against the black surrounding mountains, or a colossal milk-coloured moonstone set upon the dusty green of the valley to shimmer gently in the heat haze of a blistering summer day.

You, with all your deep adoring love for me, became all at once blind to my sorrow, whatever care I took to make it clear to your sight.

Confronted by the full implications of the message he would deliver tomorrow to Lady Agatine Slegin, getting blind drunk tonight was a real temptation.

Flight Sergeant Ivan Taylor was the Australian bomb aimer in a Blind Marker Lancaster of 7 Squadron.

Between the groups of aisle windows are blind arches narrower than the windows themselves.

The aisle fronts have upper storeys ornamented with blind arches and an upper row of small lancet windows.

The men alaying under the earth in gray have lain down their lives for some reason we may never know, just as the Lord knows all things, for some strange purpose He allowed this great conflict to take place on the earth and the people held in bondage to be unfettered and men of the South to be blinded even in their own doorways.

It had a fearsome stink and Alec and There choked, half blinded, in the midst of it.

Frigid water whipped in a convection wind, then streamed from their bodies, running from their noses, blinding their eyes with the algid wind.

Six months ago, sick with food poisoning in some nameless hospital, he had seen this same look of blind struggle in the eyes of amnesiacs or men dying of cancer.

He thought of the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose centre sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demoniac flute held in nameless paws.

Yo mun leearn to tak nowt as a bother, An' to yor own comforts be blind.