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Word Meanings - CROWDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. "Some blind crowder." Sir P. Sidney.

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  • BLINDMAN'S BUFF
    A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.
  • CROWD
    1. To push, to press, to shove. Chaucer. 2. To press or drive together; to mass together. "Crowd us and crush us." Shak. 3. To fill by pressing or thronging together; hence, to encumber by excess of numbers or quantity. The balconies and verandas
  • FIDDLER
    A burrowing crab of the genus Gelasimus, of many species. The male has one claw very much enlarged, and often holds it in a position similar to that in which a musician holds a fiddle, hence the name; -- called also calling crab, soldier crab, and
  • BLINDNESS
    State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.
  • BLIND; BLINDE
    See BLENDE
  • BLINDFISH
    A small fish destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
  • PLAYSOME
    Playful; wanton; sportive. R. Browning. -- Play"some*ness, n.
  • BLINDER
    One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, blinds.
  • BLINDAGE
    A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
  • BLINDING
    Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
  • BLINDFOLD
    To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. Luke xxii. 64.
  • BLIND READER
    A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.
  • BLINDMAN'S HOLIDAY
    The time between daylight and candle light.
  • BLINDSTORY
    The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.
  • BLINDLY
    Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own. By his imperious mistress blindly led. Dryden.
  • CROWDY
    A thick gruel of oatmeal and milk or water; food of the porridge kind.
  • CROWDER
    One who plays on a crowd; a fiddler. "Some blind crowder." Sir P. Sidney.
  • BLIND
    Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac. -- Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight. -- Blind beetle, one of the insects
  • BLINDWORM
    A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.
  • STOCK-BLIND
    Blind as a stock; wholly blind.
  • STONE-BLIND
    As blind as a stone; completely blind.
  • UNBLINDFOLD
    To free from that which blindfolds. Spenser.
  • OVERCROWD
    To crowd too much.
  • SAND-BLIND
    Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak.
  • PURBLIND
    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.
  • POREBLIND
    Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. Bacon.

 

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