Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having poor vision; partially blind.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Purblind; dim-sighted.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Alternative spelling of
sandblind .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having greatly reduced vision
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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[Aside] O heavens, 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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Ay! the whole generation of women in Briarfield seem to have made an idol of that priest: I wonder why; he is bald, sand-blind, grey-haired. '
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She now lives somewhere at Camberwell, and though sand-blind, keeps a sixpenny school for little boys and girls of the lower orders.
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921
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_ I forgot old Sam -- a jewel rough set, yet shining like a star, and though sand-blind by nature, and bigoted by Education, one of the truly great men of England, and "her men are of men the chief," alike in the dominions of the understanding, the reason, the passions, and the imagination.
Famous Reviews R. Brimley Johnson 1899
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No wonder than we attracted customers, for our sign was the prettiest ye ever saw, though the jacket was not just so neatly painted, as for some sand-blind creatures not to take it for a goose.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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No wonder than we attracted customers, for our sign was the prettiest ye ever saw, though the jacket was not just so neatly painted, as for some sand-blind creatures not to take it for a goose.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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He was a straught, tall, old man, with a shining bellpow, and reverend white locks hanging down about his haffets; a Roman nose, and two cheeks blooming through the winter of his long age like roses, when, poor body, he was sand-blind with infirmity.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824
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He was a straught, tall, old man, with a shining bell-pow, and reverend white locks hanging down about his haffets; a Roman nose, and two cheeks blooming through the winter of his long age like roses, when, poor body, he was sand-blind with infirmity.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824
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[Aside] O heavens, 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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Go in looking as pretty as that, and Mr. Squeers will graciously accept your services, unless he's sand-blind. "
We Two, a novel Edna Lyall 1880
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