| blind | noun (n.) Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse. |
| | noun (n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. |
| | noun (n.) A blindage. See Blindage. |
| | noun (n.) A halting place. |
| | noun (n.) Alt. of Blinde |
| | adjective (a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. |
| | adjective (a.) 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. |
| | adjective (a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. |
| | adjective (a.) 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. |
| | adjective (a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. |
| | adjective (a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. |
| | adjective (a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. |
| | adjective (a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled. |
| behind | noun (n.) The backside; the rump. |
| | adjective (a.) On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. |
| | adjective (a.) Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death. |
| | adjective (a.) Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. |
| | adverb (adv.) At the back part; in the rear. |
| | adverb (adv.) Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind. |
| | adverb (adv.) Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. |
| | adverb (adv.) Backward in time or order of succession; past. |
| | adverb (adv.) After the departure of another; as, to stay behind. |
| bind | noun (n.) That which binds or ties. |
| | noun (n.) Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine. |
| | noun (n.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. |
| | noun (n.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes. |
| | verb (v. t.) To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. |
| | verb (v. t.) To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound. |
| | verb (v. t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part. |
| | verb (v. t.) To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels. |
| | verb (v. t.) To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. |
| | verb (v. t.) To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book. |
| | verb (v. t.) Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. |
| | verb (v. t.) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. |
| | verb (v. t.) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. |
| | verb (v. i.) To tie; to confine by any ligature. |
| | verb (v. i.) To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. |
| | verb (v. i.) To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. |
| | verb (v. i.) To exert a binding or restraining influence. |
| find | noun (n.) Anything found; a discovery of anything valuable; especially, a deposit, discovered by archaeologists, of objects of prehistoric or unknown origin. |
| | verb (v. t.) To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. |
| | verb (v. t.) To learn by experience or trial; to perceive; to experience; to discover by the intellect or the feelings; to detect; to feel. |
| | verb (v. t.) To come upon by seeking; as, to find something lost. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discover by sounding; as, to find bottom. |
| | verb (v. t.) To discover by study or experiment direct to an object or end; as, water is found to be a compound substance. |
| | verb (v. t.) To gain, as the object of desire or effort; as, to find leisure; to find means. |
| | verb (v. t.) To attain to; to arrive at; to acquire. |
| | verb (v. t.) To provide for; to supply; to furnish; as, to find food for workemen; he finds his nephew in money. |
| | verb (v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person. |
| | verb (v. i.) To determine an issue of fact, and to declare such a determination to a court; as, the jury find for the plaintiff. |
| grind | noun (n.) The act of reducing to powder, or of sharpening, by friction. |
| | noun (n.) Any severe continuous work or occupation; esp., hard and uninteresting study. |
| | noun (n.) A hard student; a dig. |
| | verb (v. t.) To reduce to powder by friction, as in a mill, or with the teeth; to crush into small fragments; to produce as by the action of millstones. |
| | verb (v. t.) To wear down, polish, or sharpen, by friction; to make smooth, sharp, or pointed; to whet, as a knife or drill; to rub against one another, as teeth, etc. |
| | verb (v. t.) To oppress by severe exactions; to harass. |
| | verb (v. t.) To study hard for examination. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform the operation of grinding something; to turn the millstones. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become ground or pulverized by friction; as, this corn grinds well. |
| | verb (v. i.) To become polished or sharpened by friction; as, glass grinds smooth; steel grinds to a sharp edge. |
| | verb (v. i.) To move with much difficulty or friction; to grate. |
| | verb (v. i.) To perform hard aud distasteful service; to drudge; to study hard, as for an examination. |
| hind | noun (n.) The female of the red deer, of which the male is the stag. |
| | noun (n.) A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind. |
| | noun (n.) A domestic; a servant. |
| | noun (n.) A peasant; a rustic; a farm servant. |
| | adjective (a.) In the rear; -- opposed to front; of or pertaining to the part or end which follows or is behind, in opposition to the part which leads or is before; as, the hind legs or hind feet of a quadruped; the hind man in a procession. |
| kind | adjective (a.) Nature; natural instinct or disposition. |
| | adjective (a.) Race; genus; species; generic class; as, in mankind or humankind. |
| | adjective (a.) Nature; style; character; sort; fashion; manner; variety; description; class; as, there are several kinds of eloquence, of style, and of music; many kinds of government; various kinds of soil, etc. |
| | superlative (superl.) Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native. |
| | superlative (superl.) Having feelings befitting our common nature; congenial; sympathetic; as, a kind man; a kind heart. |
| | superlative (superl.) Showing tenderness or goodness; disposed to do good and confer happiness; averse to hurting or paining; benevolent; benignant; gracious. |
| | superlative (superl.) Proceeding from, or characterized by, goodness, gentleness, or benevolence; as, a kind act. |
| | superlative (superl.) Gentle; tractable; easily governed; as, a horse kind in harness. |
| | verb (v. t.) To beget. |
| mind | noun (n.) To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note. |
| | noun (n.) To occupy one's self with; to employ one's self about; to attend to; as, to mind one's business. |
| | noun (n.) To obey; as, to mind parents; the dog minds his master. |
| | noun (n.) To have in mind; to purpose. |
| | noun (n.) To put in mind; to remind. |
| | verb (v.) The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body. |
| | verb (v.) The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief. |
| | verb (v.) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will. |
| | verb (v.) Courage; spirit. |
| | verb (v.) Memory; remembrance; recollection; as, to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc. |
| | verb (v. i.) To give attention or heed; to obey; as, the dog minds well. |
| wind | noun (n.) The act of winding or turning; a turn; a bend; a twist; a winding. |
| | noun (n.) Air naturally in motion with any degree of velocity; a current of air. |
| | noun (n.) Air artificially put in motion by any force or action; as, the wind of a cannon ball; the wind of a bellows. |
| | noun (n.) Breath modulated by the respiratory and vocal organs, or by an instrument. |
| | noun (n.) Power of respiration; breath. |
| | noun (n.) Air or gas generated in the stomach or bowels; flatulence; as, to be troubled with wind. |
| | noun (n.) Air impregnated with an odor or scent. |
| | noun (n.) A direction from which the wind may blow; a point of the compass; especially, one of the cardinal points, which are often called the four winds. |
| | noun (n.) A disease of sheep, in which the intestines are distended with air, or rather affected with a violent inflammation. It occurs immediately after shearing. |
| | noun (n.) Mere breath or talk; empty effort; idle words. |
| | noun (n.) The dotterel. |
| | noun (n.) The region of the pit of the stomach, where a blow may paralyze the diaphragm and cause temporary loss of breath or other injury; the mark. |
| | verb (v. t.) To turn completely, or with repeated turns; especially, to turn about something fixed; to cause to form convolutions about anything; to coil; to twine; to twist; to wreathe; as, to wind thread on a spool or into a ball. |
| | verb (v. t.) To entwist; to infold; to encircle. |
| | verb (v. t.) To have complete control over; to turn and bend at one's pleasure; to vary or alter or will; to regulate; to govern. |
| | verb (v. t.) To introduce by insinuation; to insinuate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To cover or surround with something coiled about; as, to wind a rope with twine. |
| | verb (v. i.) To turn completely or repeatedly; to become coiled about anything; to assume a convolved or spiral form; as, vines wind round a pole. |
| | verb (v. i.) To have a circular course or direction; to crook; to bend; to meander; as, to wind in and out among trees. |
| | verb (v. i.) To go to the one side or the other; to move this way and that; to double on one's course; as, a hare pursued turns and winds. |
| | verb (v. t.) To expose to the wind; to winnow; to ventilate. |
| | verb (v. t.) To perceive or follow by the scent; to scent; to nose; as, the hounds winded the game. |
| | verb (v. t.) To drive hard, or force to violent exertion, as a horse, so as to render scant of wind; to put out of breath. |
| | verb (v. t.) To rest, as a horse, in order to allow the breath to be recovered; to breathe. |
| | verb (v. t.) To blow; to sound by blowing; esp., to sound with prolonged and mutually involved notes. |
