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Sand-blind

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Partly blind, semi-blind, half-blind.

From the Old English samblind from sam- meaning semi- + blind.

In the erroneous belief that the term referred to blindness caused by sand, Samuel Johnson defined the term in his great Dictionary of the English Language (1755) as: 'Having a defect in the eyes, by which small particles appear to fly before them.

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