blindling

"Poor blindling! is that a proof that He hateth you?" answered Guy more gently.

The Well in the Desert An Old Legend of the House of Arundel Emily Sarah Holt 1864

There he will see the first scholar of his age not thinking it unbecoming to taunt Milton with his blindness, in such language as this: "a puppy, once my pretty little man, now blear-eyed, or rather a blindling; having never had any mental vision, he has now lost his bodily sight;

Milton Mark Pattison 1848