north. dial. Forms: 3 blindlunge, 6 -lingis, -lings, -ling, -lynge, 9 Sc. blin(d)lins. [f. BLIND a. + -LING(S advb. suffix.] Blind-wise, blindly, heedlessly.

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a. 1225.  St. Marher., 15. Ich habbe ablend ham þat ha blindlunge gað.

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1513.  Douglas, Æneis, II. vii. [vi.] 74. Quhen blindlingis in the battell fey thai fycht.

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1544.  Bale, Chron. Sir J. Oldcastell, in Harl. Misc., I. 275. They will … leade you blindelynge into hell with themselues.

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1858.  M. Porteous, Souter Johnny, 31. Blinlins did the carline speak it.

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