'Blind door' definitions:

Definition of 'Blind door'

From: GCIDE
  • Blind \Blind\, a. [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.]
  • 1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. [1913 Webster]
  • He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. [1913 Webster]
  • But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. [1913 Webster]
  • This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. --Jay. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. [1913 Webster]
  • The blind mazes of this tangled wood. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. [1913 Webster]
  • 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 apt to fly against people, esp. at night.
  • Blind cat (Zool.), a species of catfish ({Gronias nigrolabris}), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.
  • Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. --Simmonds.
  • Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or Blank window, under Blank, a.
  • Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. --Knight.
  • Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead.
  • Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode.
  • Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. --Swift.
  • Blind snake (Zool.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopid[ae], with rudimentary eyes.
  • Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light.
  • Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking.
  • Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Blind door'

From: GCIDE
  • Door \Door\, n. [OE. dore, dure, AS. duru; akin to OS. dura, dor, D. deur, OHG. turi, door, tor gate, G. th["u]r, thor, Icel. dyrr, Dan. d["o]r, Sw. d["o]rr, Goth. daur, Lith. durys, Russ. dvere, Olr. dorus, L. fores, Gr. ?; cf. Skr. dur, dv[=a]ra. [root]246. Cf. Foreign.]
  • 1. An opening in the wall of a house or of an apartment, by which to go in and out; an entrance way. [1913 Webster]
  • To the same end, men several paths may tread, As many doors into one temple lead. --Denham. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The frame or barrier of boards, or other material, usually turning on hinges, by which an entrance way into a house or apartment is closed and opened. [1913 Webster]
  • At last he came unto an iron door That fast was locked. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Passage; means of approach or access. [1913 Webster]
  • I am the door; by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved. --John x. 9. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. An entrance way, but taken in the sense of the house or apartment to which it leads. [1913 Webster]
  • Martin's office is now the second door in the street. --Arbuthnot. [1913 Webster]
  • Blank door, Blind door, etc. (Arch.) See under Blank, Blind, etc.
  • In doors, or Within doors, within the house.
  • Next door to, near to; bordering on. [1913 Webster]
  • A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. --L'Estrange.
  • Out of doors, or Without doors, and, [colloquially], {Out doors}, out of the house; in open air; abroad; away; lost. [1913 Webster]
  • His imaginary title of fatherhood is out of doors. --Locke.
  • To lay (a fault, misfortune, etc.) at one's door, to charge one with a fault; to blame for.
  • To lie at one's door, to be imputable or chargeable to. [1913 Webster]
  • If I have failed, the fault lies wholly at my door. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Door is used in an adjectival construction or as the first part of a compound (with or without the hyphen), as, door frame, doorbell or door bell, door knob or doorknob, door latch or doorlatch, door jamb, door handle, door mat, door panel. [1913 Webster]