Hypertext Webster Gateway: "purblind"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Purblind \Pur"blind`\, a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind.
See {Pure}, and cf. {Poreblind}.]
1. Wholly blind. ``Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.''
--Shak.
2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a
purblind eye; a purblind mole.
The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from
heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. --Latimer.
O purblind race of miserable men. --Tennyson.
-- {Pur"blind`ly}, adv. -- {Pur"blind`ness}, n.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
purblind
adj 1: having greatly reduced vision [syn: {dim-sighted}, {near-blind},
{sand-blind}, {visually impaired}, {visually
challenged}]
2: lacking in insight or discernment; "too obtuse to grasp the
implications of his behavior"; "a purblind oligarchy that
flatly refused to see that history was condemning it to
the dustbin"- Jasper Griffin [syn: {obtuse}]
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