Word Meanings - BLINDWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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.
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- BLINDING
A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4. - LIMBLESS
Destitute of limbs. - 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. - FORMERLY
In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - WRONGOUS
Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful. - LIZARD
Any one of the numerous species of reptiles belonging to the order Lacertilia; sometimes, also applied to reptiles of other orders, as the Hatteria. Note: Most lizards have an elongated body, with four legs, and a long tail; but there - WRONG
1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly; - ADDER'S-TONGUE
A genus of ferns , whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue. The yellow dogtooth violet. Gray. - BLINDNESS
State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism. - BLIND; BLINDE
See BLENDE - BELIEVING
That believes; having belief. -- Be*liev"ing*ly, adv. - ADDERWORT
The common bistort or snakeweed . - WRONGLESS
Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney. - 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. - 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. - SLOWWORM
A lecertilian reptile; the blindworm. (more info) sleán to strike, the reptile being supposed to be very poisonous. See - BELIEVABLE
Capable of being believed; credible. -- Be*liev"a*ble*ness, n. -- Be*liev`a*bil"i*ty (, n. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - BELIEVE
1. To have a firm persuasion, esp. of the truths of religion; to have a persuasion approaching to certainty; to exercise belief or faith. Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief. Mark ix. 24. With the heart man believeth unto righteousness. Rom. - SADDER
See SADDA - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - STOCK-BLIND
Blind as a stock; wholly blind. - KADDER
The jackdaw. - NADDER
An adder. Chaucer. - COMMINUTE
To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture. - BADDER
compar. of Bad, a. Chaucer. - BADDERLOCKS
A large black seaweed sometimes eaten in Europe; -- also called murlins, honeyware, and henware. - STONE-BLIND
As blind as a stone; completely blind.