1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blind.

2. (a.) Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

3. (n.) A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind.

ablepsia absolute amaurosis bedazzling benightedness bleeding blessed blind side blind spot blindfolding blindness blinking blooming blurring the eyes bright bright and shining brilliant cat-and-doggish cataract cecity confounded crude darkness dazzling depriving of sight dim-sightedness doggone downright drippy driving drizzling drizzly drop serene drumming economic blindness effulgent ever-during dark excecation execrable eyelessness flamboyant flaming flaring flashy flaunting fulgent fulgid garish gaudy glaring glary glaucoma gross gutta serena hoodwinking infernal lack of vision loud lurid making blind misty misty-moisty mizzly niphablepsia obscuring outright overbright partial blindness pelting pluvial pluviose pluvious pouring psychic blindness rainy rank raw reduced sight refulgent resplendent screaming showery shrieking sightless eyes sightlessness snow blindness soul-blindness spiritual blindness splendent splendid splendorous stone-blindness streaming total blindness trachoma unenlightenment unmitigated unseeingness vivid