stone-blind
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]References sandblind ("partially blind", alteration of samblind), and stone dead ("unquestionably dead").
Adjective
[edit]stone-blind (not comparable)
- Completely blind.
- 1915, William Campbell, Sketches from Formosa, Marshall Brothers Limited, page 82:
- While recently addressing a large open-air audience in the district city itself, a man came forward and warmly invited me to dine with him. On inquiry, it turned out that he had formerly been stone-blind, but had been completely restored to sight by a simple operation at the hospital. Now, here was a man who would speak well of us, at all hazard ; and who, as a matter of fact, came home to his friends to tell them how great things the Lord had done for him.
- 1942 October 3, John Ware, “Nomenclature of Night Blindness”, in British Medical Journal, volume 2, number 4265, →PMID, page 409:
- A deaf man may be anything from hard of hearing to as deaf as a post; a blind man may be as blind as a bat or an owl; he may be gravel-blind or stone-blind; a bald man as bald as a coot or as a billiard ball.