Word Meanings - BLINDWORM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder.

• Blindage
  A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.
• Formerly
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• Smallness
  The quality or state of being small.
• Blinder
  One who, or that which, blinds.
• Limbless
  Destitute of limbs.
• Smallpox
  A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thi
• Blindfish
  A small fish (Amblyopsis spelaeus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.
• Adder fly/
  A dragon fly.
• Blindfolded
  of Blindfold
• Lizard's tail
  A perennial plant of the genus Saururus (S. cernuus), growing in marshes, and having white flowers crowded in a slender terminal spike, somewhat resembling in form a lizard's tail; whence the name.
• Smallsword
  A light sword used for thrusting only; especially, the sword worn by civilians of rank in the eighteenth century.
• Adder's-tongue
  A genus of ferns (Ophioglossum), whose seeds are produced on a spike resembling a serpent's tongue.
• Blindfolding
  of Blindfold
• Adderwort
  The common bistort or snakeweed (Polygonum bistorta).
• Blindfold
  To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing.

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