sandblind

See also: sand-blind

English[edit]

Alteration (due to association with sand) of Middle English samblind (“half-blind”), from Old English *samblind (“half-blind”), from sam- (“half-”) + blind (“blind”).

sandblind (comparative more sandblind, superlative most sandblind)

Half-blind; partially blind.
Dim-sighted.
- c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii], page 167, column 1:
  O heauens, this is my true begotten Father, who being more then sand-blinde, high grauel blinde, knows me not, I will trie confusions with him.