eyes, shut the eyes-, turn away the eyes, avert
the eyes; look another way; wink &c. (limited vision) 443; shut the eyes to, be blind to, wink at, blink at.
     render blind &c. adj.; blind, blindfold; hoodwink, dazzle, put one’s
eyes out; throw dust into one’s eyes, pull the wool over one’s eyes; jeter de la poudre aux yeux[Fr]; screen from sight &c. (hide) 528. 
     Adj. blind; eyeless, sightless, visionless; dark; stone-blind, sand-
blind, stark-blind; undiscerning[obs3]; dimsighted &c. 443.
     blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a
mole, blind as an owl; wall-eyed.
     blinded &c. v. 
     Adv. blindly, blindfold, blindfolded; darkly. 
     Phr.  “O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon” [Milton].

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     #443. [Imperfect vision.] Dimsightedness. [Fallacies of vision.] —­ N.
dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c.; purblindness, lippitude[obs3]; myopia, presbyopia[obs3]; confusion of vision; astigmatism; color blindness, chromato-pseudo-blepsis[obs3], Daltonism; nyctalopia[obs3]; strabismus, strabism[obs3], squint; blearedness[obs3], day blindness, hemeralopia[obs3], nystagmus; xanthocyanopia[obs3], xanthopsia[Med]; cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes; obliquity of vision.
     winking &c. v.; nictitation; blinkard[obs3], albino.
     dizziness, swimming, scotomy[obs3]; cataract; ophthalmia.
     [Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c. (hider) 530.
     [Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus[Lat]; refraction, distortion,
illusion, false light, anamorphosis[obs3], virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma|; phantasm, phantasma[obs3], phantom; vision; specter, apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus &c. (luminary) 423 specter of the Brocken magic mirror[Lat]; magic lantern &c. (show) 448; mirror lens &c. (instrument) 445. 
     V. be dimsighted &c. n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a
mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant[obs3], askant askance[obs3]; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate[obs3].
     dazzle, loom. 
     Adj. dim-sighted &c. n.; myopic, presbyopic[obs3]; astigmatic moon-
eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of one eye, monoculous[obs3]; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole-eyed; dichroic.
     blind as a bat &c. (blind) 442; winking &c. v.

     #444.  Spectator. —­ N. spectator, beholder, observer, looker-on,
onlooker, witness, eyewitness, bystander, passer by; sightseer; rubberneck , rubbernecker * [U.  S.].
     spy; sentinel &c. (warning) 668. 
     V. witness, behold &c. (see) 441; look on &c. (be present) 186; gawk,
rubber *, rubberneck [U.S.].