a. Also snowblind. [f. SNOW sb.1 Cf. Du. sneeuw-, G. schnee-, Da. sne-, Sw. snöblind.] Having the eyes or sight affected by exposure to the glare of snow.
1748. H. Ellis, Voy. Hudson’s Bay, 189. They [Indians] frequently become Snow-blind, in the Spring of the Year.
1865. Times, 5 Feb. When the day at length dawned there was a thick fog, and I was rapidly becoming snow-blind.
1896. C. W. Whitney, in Harper’s Mag., April, 728/2. Every man in the party but myself was more or less severely snow-blind.
So Snow-blinded a.
1839–52. Bailey, Festus, 316. As tired wanderer, snow-blinded, sinks And swoons upon the swelling drift.
