Then it's down with the bedstead and let us away,
Pack up all we can in the blind,
And long ere the morning,
Without any warning,
We'll leave back-rent and landlord behind.
(Printers), a term applied to a paragraph mark ¶, owing to the fact of the eye of the P being black or filled up.
Blind cheeks (popular), posteriors, termed sometimes blind Cupid. The French argot calls it more appropriately le borgne. Another slang expression for the same part of the body is "two fat cheeks and ne'er a nose;" in French slang "un visage sans nez."
Blinder (thieves), to "take a blinder," to die.
Some rubber to wit had napped a winder,
And some were scragged and took a blinder.
Blindo, to (army), to die.
Blind one's trail, to (American), to act in such a way that it would be difficult to trace one's doings; putting off the scent. Thus a fox in crossing a river blinds his trail, water being fatal to the scent of dogs.
Blink, to (American), to drink. In Dutch thieves' slang, blinkert is a glass. "Blinkert om uit te buizen"—"To booze from a glass."
Blinker (American), a phrase fully explained by the following anecdote from a New York newspaper:—
"The term growler has become obsolete, and blinker has succeeded it. A waggonload of 'supplies' was transferred to the Bedlows (prison) island boat, and among them were two two-gallon kerosene oil cans. A boat-hand remarked, 'They must be usin' lots of kerosene—them officers over there—for they gets them cans filled mighty often!' The secret was let out a few minutes later, when one of the men coming on deck with the happy smile of one who has interviewed the ardent, said to one of his companions: 'I say, Jimmy, the blinkers have got good stuff this time!'"
—Vide Blink.
Blinkers (pugilistic), the eyes, termed also ogles, optics, peepers, winkers. (Common), spectacles. Blinkert, Dutch slang, glass.
Blinko (thieves), the term is explained by the quotation.
"What is a blinko, for instance?" "Well, it's a kind of entertainment, singing, and that," replied the old fellow, "to which strangers are not invited—least of all the police."—J. Greenwood: Dick Temple.
Blizzard (American), a word of many meanings. In one of the early Crockett almanacs about 1836 it appears as distinctly meaning a shot from a rifle.
"The elder boys when they went to school carried their rifles to get a blizzard at anything they might meet on the road."
It has been conjectured that in this sense it was derived from
