blinkard

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When the sun shone clear the water on beyond became a shimmering blazing shield of white-hot metal; and an hour of uninterrupted gazing upon it would have turned an argus into a blinkard.

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  1. A person who blinks or sees imperfectly; one who squints. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Char. of Holland, in Harl. Misc. (ed. 1810), V. 613. For I was of Christ's choosing, I God's knight, No blinkard heathen stumbling for scant light. Swinburne, Laus Veneris
  2. That which twinkles or glances, as a dim star which appears and disappears. In some parts we see many glorious and eminent stars, in others few of any remarkable greatness, and, in some, none but blinkards and obscure ones. Hakewill, Apology, p. 237.
  3. One who lacks intellectual perception.
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  1. from blink + -ard, as in drunkard, dotard.
 

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