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.