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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[For

pure-blind

, i. e., wholly blind. See

, and cf.

Wholly blind.

“Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.”

Shak.

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

purblind

and sand-blind.

Latimer.

purblind

race of miserable men.

Tennyson.

–

Pur′blindˊly

adv.

–

Pur′blindˊness

Noun.

Adj.

[said to be from pore and blind.]

Near sighted or dim sighted or; seeing obscurely; as a purblind eye; a purblind mole.