The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sand-blind
Sand-blind \Sand"-blind`\, a. [For sam blind half blind; AS.
s[=a]m- half (akin to semi-) + blind.]
Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.
--Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sand-blind
also sandblind, "half-blind," c.1400, probably altered (by influence of sand) from Old English *samblind, the first element from West Germanic *sami-, from PIE *semi- (see semi-); compare Old English samlæred "half-taught, badly instructed," samstorfen "half-dead."
Wiktionary
sand-blind
a. (alternative spelling of sandblind English)
WordNet
sand-blind
adj. having greatly reduced vision [syn: dim-sighted, near-blind, purblind, visually impaired, visually challenged]