Pur"blind` (?), a. [For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind. See Pure, and cf. Poreblind.]
1.
Wholly blind.
"
Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight."
Shak.
2.
Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole.
The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind.
Latimer.
O purblind race of miserable men.
Tennyson.
-- Pur"blind`ly, adv. -- Pur"blind`ness, n.
© Webster 1913.