There are four varieties of commercially viable coffee: Arabica, Liberica, Excelsa, and Robusta. Growers predominantly plant the Arabica species. Although less popular, Robusta tastes slightly more bitter and contains more caffeine.
BLINDING
blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary
(adjective) shining intensely; “the blazing sun”; “blinding headlights”; “dazzling snow”; “fulgent patterns of sunlight”; “the glaring sun”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Verb
blinding
present participle of blind
Adjective
blinding (comparative more blinding, superlative most blinding)
Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.
(UK, slang) Brilliant; marvellous.
Adverb
blinding (comparative more blinding, superlative most blinding)
(nonstandard) To an extreme degree; blindingly.
Noun
blinding (plural blindings)
The act of causing blindness.
A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.
Source: Wiktionary
Blind"ing, a.
Definition: Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.
Blind"ing, n.
Definition: A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4.
BLIND
Blind, a. Etym: [AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin.]
1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.
2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more, That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton.
3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. Jay.
4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch.
5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton.
6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
8. (Hort.)
Definition: Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.
– Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight.
– Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night.
– Blind cat (Zoöl.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.
– Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. Simmonds.
– Blind door, Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or window, under Blank, a.
– Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. Knight.
– Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead.
– Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode.
– Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift.
– Blind snake (Zoöl.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes.
– Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light.
– Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking.
– Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall.
Blind, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinding.]
1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. "To blind the truth and me." Tennyson. A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South.
2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher.
3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden. The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet.
4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.
Blind, n.
1. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.
2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
3. Etym: [Cf. F. blindes, pblende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind.] (Mil.)
Definition: A blindage. See Blindage.
4. A halting place. [Obs.] Dryden.
Blind, Blinde, n.
Definition: See Blende.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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