[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blind \blind\, a. as.; akin to d., g., os., sw.,  dan. blind,
   icel. blindr, goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.
   1. destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect
      or by deprivation; without sight.
      1913 webster

            he that is strucken blind can not forget
            the precious treasure of his eyesight lost. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of
      intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or
      judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects.
      1913 webster

            but hard be hardened, blind be blinded more,
            that they may stumble on, and deeper fall. --milton.
      1913 webster

   3. undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
      1913 webster

            this plan is recommended neither to blind
            approbation nor to blind reprobation. --jay.
      1913 webster

   4. having such a state or condition as a thing would have to
      a person who is blind; not well marked or easily
      discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path;
      a blind ditch.
      1913 webster

   5. involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
      1913 webster

            the blind mazes of this tangled wood. --milton.
      1913 webster

   6. having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall;
      open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
      1913 webster

   7. unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind
      passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
      1913 webster

   8. hort. abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as,
      blind buds; blind flowers.
      1913 webster

   blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.

   blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate
      motion. --knight.

   blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people,
      esp. at night.

   blind cat zool., a species of catfish gronias
      nigrolabris, nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns
      in pennsylvania.

   blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal.
      --simmonds.

   blind door, blind window, an imitation of a door or
      window, without an opening for passage or light. see
      blank door or blank window, under blank, a.

   blind level mining, a level or drainage gallery which has
      a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted
      siphon. --knight.

   blind nettle bot., dead nettle. see dead nettle, under
      dead.

   blind shell gunnery, a shell containing no charge, or one
      that does not explode.

   blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak
      or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or
      disposed to see danger. --swift.

   blind snake zool., a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of
      the family typhlopidae, with rudimentary eyes.

   blind spot anat., the point in the retina of the eye
      where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to
      light.

   blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the
      indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; --
      called also blank tooling, and blind blocking.

   blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.
      1913 webster
see also:
blind alley blind axle blind beetle blind cat gronias nigrolabris blind coal 
blind door blind window blank door blank window blank 
blind level blind nettle dead nettle dead blind shell 
blind side blind snake typhlopidae blind spot blind tooling 
blank tooling blind blocking blind wall 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

blind spot
     n 1: a subject about which you are ignorant or prejudiced and
          fail to exercise good judgment; "golf is one of his
          blind spots and he's proud of it"
     2: the point where the optic nerve enters the retina; not
        sensitive to light syn: optic disc, optic disk
see also:
optic disc optic disk 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

89 moby thesaurus words for "blind spot":
   ablepsia, amaurosis, atmospheric attenuation, atmospherics,
   authoritarianism, benightedness, bigotry, blaring, blasting,
   blind side, blind spots, blinders, blindfolding, blinding,
   blindness, blurring the eyes, cataract, cecity, closed mind,
   clutter, cramped ideas, crawling, creeping, darkness, deflection,
   depriving of sight, dim-sightedness, drift, drop serene,
   economic blindness, ever-during dark, excecation, eyelessness,
   fade-out, fading, false echoes, fanaticism, glaucoma,
   ground clutter, gutta serena, hideboundness, hoodwinking,
   illiberality, insularism, insularity, interference, lack of vision,
   little-mindedness, littleness, making blind, mean mind, meanness,
   narrow sympathies, narrow views, narrow-mindedness, narrowness,
   nearsightedness, niphablepsia, noise, odium theologicum,
   parochialism, partial blindness, pettiness, petty mind,
   provincialism, psychic blindness, purblindness, reception,
   reduced sight, refraction, sea clutter, shortsightedness,
   shut mind, sightless eyes, sightlessness, smallness,
   snow blindness, soul-blindness, spiritual blindness, static,
   stone-blindness, straitlacedness, stuffiness, superrefraction,
   total blindness, trachoma, uncatholicity, unenlightenment,
   unseeingness

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