Dictionary entry

Purblind

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.