Definitions
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- adjective Half-blind, partially blind
- adjective Dim-sighted
Etymologies
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Middle English alteration (due to assoc. with sand) of samblind ("half-blind"), from Old English samblind ("half-blind"), from sām- ("half-") + blind ("blind")
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Examples
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Agendath is a waste land, a home of screechowls and the sandblind upupa.
Ulysses 2003
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O heavens! this is my true-begotten father, who, being more than sandblind, high-gravel blind, knows me not: I will try confusions with him.
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Agendath is a waste land, a home of screechowls and the sandblind upupa.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Both Nanse and I found ourselves so proud of our new situation that we slipped out in the dark and had a prime look with a lantern at the sign, which was the prettiest ye ever saw, although some sandblind creatures had taken the neatly painted jacket for a goose.
The World's Greatest Books — Volume 06 — Fiction Various 1909
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