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.