Word Meanings - BLINDFOLD - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
Related words: (words related to BLINDFOLD)
- SEEMINGNESS
Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby. - COVER-POINT
The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point." - SEERSUCKER
A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance. - COVERLET
The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser. - SEEK
Sick. Chaucer. - COVERCLE
A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne. - SEEMING
1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason, - COVERT BARON
Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill. - HINDEREST
Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer. - BANDAGE
1. A fillet or strip of woven material, used in dressing and binding up wounds, etc. 2. Something resembling a bandage; that which is bound over or round something to cover, strengthen, or compress it; a ligature. Zeal too had a place among the - SEEDLESS
Without seed or seeds. - BLINDFOLD
Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury. Fate's blindfold reign the atheist loudly owns. Dryden. - COVERTNESS
Secrecy; privacy. - HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See - SEEDCOD
A seedlip. - SEETHER
A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden. - SEED-LAC
A species of lac. See the Note under Lac. - COVERER
One who, or that which, covers. - SEEL
1. Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. "So have I seel". Chaucer. 2. Time; season; as, hay seel. - SEEL; SEELING
The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. Sandys. - MESEEMS
It seems to me. - RECOVER
To cover again. Sir W. Scott. - WORMSEED
Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves. - UNSEEMLY
Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne. - LOPSEED
A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits. - GAPESEED
Any strange sight. Wright. - BESEECH
1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate. - UPSEEK
To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey. - BESEEMING
1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret. - BERSEEM
An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called - WONDERSTRUCK
Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden. - HAGSEED
The offspring of a hag. Shak. - UNFORESEE
To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket. - BESEEN
1. Seen; appearing. 2. Decked or adorned; clad. Chaucer. 3. Accomplished; versed. Spenser. - FORESEE
1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.