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Definitions

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Half-blind, partially blind
  2. adj. Dim-sighted

Etymologies

  1. Middle English alteration (due to assoc. with sand) of samblind ("half-blind"), from Old English samblind ("half-blind"), from sām- ("half-") + blind ("blind") (Wiktionary)

Examples

  • “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.”

    Act II. Scene II. The Merchant of Venice

  • “Agendath is a waste land, a home of screechowls and the sandblind upupa.”

    Ulysses

  • “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

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