n.

1. people who have severe visual impairments, considered as a group
   
   • he spent hours reading to the blind
2. a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters)
   
   • he waited impatiently in the blind
3. something that keeps things out or hinders sight;
   screen
   
   • they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet
4. something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity;
   subterfuge
   
   • he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge
   • the holding company was just a blind

v.

1. render unable to see
2. make blind by putting the eyes out
   
   • The criminals were punished and blinded
3. make dim by comparison or conceal;
   dim

adj.

1. unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan;
   unsighted
2. unable or unwilling to perceive or understand
   
   • blind to a lover's faults
   • blind to the consequences of their actions
3. not based on reason or evidence;
   unreasoning
   
   • blind hatred
   • blind faith
   • unreasoning panic