A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a
guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . .
a much greater. --South.
2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
for and painful to; to dazzle.
Her beauty all the rest did blind. --P. Fletcher.
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
conceal; to deceive.
Such darkness blinds the sky. --Dryden.
The state of the controversy between us he
endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.
--Stillingfleet.
4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a
road newly paved, in order that the joints between the
stones may be filled.