sand-blind

[ sand-blahynd ]

adjective

1. partially blind; dim-sighted.

sand-blind

adjective

1. not completely blind; partially able to see Compare stone-blind

Derived Forms

• ˈsand-ˌblindness, noun

Other Words From

• sandblindness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of sand-blind¹

1350–1400; Middle English; alteration (assimilated to sand ) of Old English *samblind half-blind, equivalent to sam- half- (akin to semi- ) + blind blind

Word History and Origins

Origin of sand-blind¹

C15: changed (through influence of sand ) from Old English samblind (unattested), from sam- half, semi- + blind

Example Sentences

These phenomena are so unexplained, so inexplicable, so incredible, that the simplest plan is to deny them, to attribute them all to fraud or to hallucination, and to believe that all the participators are sand-blind.

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Yet, wherefore, oh, sand-blind Fortune! hast thou rolled the hypocritical saint in my bank-notes, and hung golden offerings upon her Medusa head, while I, the honest scoundrel, am stripped naked to supply the ovation?

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"I am nothing but a skin of bones—nothing to pick," he said, "and all but sand-blind, and therefore could not see to be afraid."

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O heavens, this is my true-begotten father! who, being more than sand-blind, high gravel blind, knows me not.

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This is my true-begotten father, who, being more than sand-blind, high-gravel blind, knows me not: I will try confusions with him.

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