sand-blind

sand-blind
/sand"bluynd'/, adj.
partially blind; dim-sighted.
[1350-1400; ME; alter. (assimilated to SAND) of OE *samblind half-blind, equiv. to sam- half- (akin to SEMI-) + blind BLIND]

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