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sand-blind

sand-blind is the alternative form of sandblind.

Meaning of sandblind

Adjective

sandblind (comparative more sandblind, superlative most sandblind)

  1. Half-blind; partially blind.
    • [T]hree of the boys, of whom Mr. Hector was sometimes one, used to come in the morning as his humble attendants, and carry him [Johnson] to school. […] The purfly, sand-blind lubber and blubber, with his open mouth, and face of bruised honeycomb; yet already dominant, imperial, irresistible!1832 May, Thomas Carlyle, “[James] Boswell’s Life of [Samuel] Johnson”, in R[alph] W[aldo] E[merson], editor, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: […], volume III, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and...
  2. Dim-sighted.
    • O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...

Forms of sand-blind

comparativemore sand-blind
superlativemost sand-blind

Questions about sand-blind

What is sand-blind the alternative form of?
Sand-blind is the alternative form of sandblind.

Words near sand-blind in the dictionary

  1. sand winning
  2. sand yacht
  3. sand yachting
  4. sand yachts
  5. sand-blight
  6. sand-blind
  7. sand-boondy
  8. sand-cast
  9. sand-casting
  10. sand-casts
  11. Sand-Dancer

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