Word Meanings - BLINDMANSBUFF - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

• Personate
  To celebrate loudly; to extol; to praise.
• BLINDMANSHOLIDAY
  The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]
• Catchment
  A surface of ground on which water may be caught and collected into a reservoir.
• Personae
  of Persona
• Personation
  The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.
• CATCHBASIN
  A cistern or vault at the point where a street gutter discharges into a sewer, to oatch bulky matters which would not pass readly throught the sewer. Knight.
• Catchpenny
  Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show.
• Catchpoll
  A bailiff's assistant.
• Personator
  One who personates.
• CATCHCROP
  Any crop grown between the rows of another crop or intermediate between two crops in ordinary rotation in point of time. -- Catch"- crop`ping, n. Radishes . . . are often grown as a catch crop with other vegetables. L. H. Bailey.
• Blindfolded
  of Blindfold
• Personable
  Having a well-formed body, or person; graceful; comely; of good appearance; presentable; as, a personable man or woman.
• Personeity
  Personality.
• CATCHMEADOW
  meadow irrigated by water from a spring or rivulet on the side of hill.
• Blindfolding
  of Blindfold
• Catchwater
  A ditch or drain for catching water. See Catchdrain.
• Personage
  Form, appearance, or belongings of a person; the external appearance, stature, figure, air, and the like, of a person.

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