Blind

According to the Old English Dictionary:

blind

Add: I. physical :-- Ic wæs blind bám eágum, Hml. Th. i. 422, 7: Bt. 38, 5; F. 206, 26. Palpo ic grápige; hic palpo ðes blinda mann, hujus palponis ðyses blindan, Ælfc. Gr. Z. 216, 10. (Dele the rendering in Dict.) II. figurative, (a) of persons :-- Ðá dysegan men sint ǽlces dómes hlince, Bt. 32, 3; F. 118, 22. Hé hét hí búgan tó his blindum godum, Hml. S. 25, 217. (b) of passion, &c. :-- Blindre gyrninge caecae cupidatatis, An. Ox. 5288. Þæs blindan lustes. Bt. 7, 2; F. 18, 3. Blindre fyrhto ceca formidine, Wrt. Voc. ii. 130, 81. III. of a place, without light, dark :-- On blindum scræfe in carcere caeca, Dóm. L. 230. Sécað án blind cweartern, þǽr nán leóht ne mage inn, Hml. S. 37, 176. IV. blind alley">blind">not shining, dim [N. E. D. blind, 7] :-- Blindum lígum caecis flammis, Dóm. L. 241. V. hidden from sight [v. N. E. D. blind, 9] :-- On blindan wyll; þanon on clǽnan splott, C. D. B. iii. 336, 22. VI. blind (as in blind alley, v. N. E. D. blind, 11), closed at one end :-- Blind þearm blind gut; cecum, Wrt. Voc. ii. 16, 59. VII. of a plant which is without some property, not stinging (of a nettle-like plant) [v. N. E. D. blind, 12] :-- Netel urtica, blind netel archangelica, Wrt. Voc. i. 79, 31. Blinde netele, An. Ox. 56, 402. v. stær-blind. blind