资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Purblind \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.