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/blˈaɪndər/ Listen

noun

Blinder n.

One who, or that which, blinds.

(Saddlery) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blinder" Quotes from Famous Books

... old man, with a broad grin. "And why? She is mistress of one of the finest old castles in Austria, Schloss Marlanx, and she is quite beautiful enough to have lovers by the score when the Count grows a little blinder and less jealous. She is in Edelweiss at present, visiting her father. The Count never ...

— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... scheme of bringing liberty everywhere to the Greeks, were in the light of Italian policy grave errors, is sufficiently clear. But the causes of these errors were, on the one hand a blind dread of Carthage, on the other a still blinder enthusiasm for Hellenic liberty; so little did the Romans exhibit during this period the lust of conquest, that they, on the contrary, displayed a very judicious dread of it. The policy of Rome throughout ...

— The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5) • Theodor Mommsen

... mortality by relinquishing mortality itself in preference to any other mode. Life is but a sad possession to those who have attained precisely the degree of moral advancement at which I stand. Were I weaker and blinder it might be happiness. Were I stronger, it might be endured hopefully. But, being what I find myself, methinks I am of all mortals the most ...

— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... spoke. He was nonplussed; and Mr. Gryce no less so. Never had either of them been confronted by a blinder or more bewildering case. An incomprehensible crime and a suspect it was impossible to associate with a deed of blood! There must be some other explanation of the mournful circumstance they were considering. There had been twenty or more ...

— The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow • Anna Katharine Green

... the Scollays' story and I think we all believed that in the main it was true. In fact, since then it has stood the test of all the evidence that could be got to check it. At the same time it seemed pretty clear that their greed had made them blinder than any one without a strong monetary interest could possibly have been. For fear of losing their little gold mine they had shut their eyes when people of average common sense would have opened them pretty wide. Our questions convicted them of ...

— The Man From the Clouds • J. Storer Clouston

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