BLINDING  , a See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of See also:

• PUNISHMENT (from Lat. punire, to punish, from poena, punishment, Gr. 7rocvil)

punishment anciently See also:

• COMMON

common in many lands, being inflicted on thieves, adulterers, perjurers and other criminals . The inhabitants of See also:

• APOLLONIA

Apollonia (See also:

• ILLYRIA

Illyria) are said to have inflicted this See also:

• PENALTY (Lat. poena, punishment)

penalty on their " See also:

• WATCH (in O. Eng. wcecce, a keeping guard or watching, from wacian, to guard, watch, wacan, to wake)

watch " when found asleep at their posts . It was resorted to by the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman emperors in their persecutions of the Christians . The method of destroying , the sight varied . Sometimes a mixture of See also:

• LIME
• LIME (O. Eng. lim, Lat. limes, mud, from linere, to smear)

lime and See also:

• VINEGAR

vinegar, or barely scalding vinegar alone, was poured into the eyes . Some-times a rope was See also:

• TWISTED

twisted See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the victim's See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head till the eyes started out of their sockets . In the See also:

• MIDDLE

middle ages the punishment seems to have been changed from See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

• BLINDNESS

blindness to a permanent injury to the eyes, amounting, however, almost to blindness, produced by holding a red-hot See also:

• IRON [symbol Fe, atomic weight 55.85 (0=16)]

iron dish or See also:

• BASIN, or BASON (the older form bacin is found in many of the Romanic languages, from the Late Lat. baccinus or bacchinus, probably derived from bacca, a bowl)
• BASIN, THOMAS (1412—1491)

basin before the See also:

• FACE (from Lat. fades, derived either from facere, to make, or from a root fa-, meaning " appear "; cf. Gr. cbatvstv)

face . Under the See also:

• FOREST

forest See also:

• LAWS

laws of the See also:

• NORMAN
• NORMAN, SIR HENRY WYLIE (1826-1904)

Norman See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England blinding was a common penalty . See also:

• SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM (1564-1616)

Shakespeare makes See also:

• KING
• KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
• KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
• KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
• KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
• KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
• KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
• KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
• KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
• KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
• KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
• KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)

King See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• ORDER
• ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
• ORDER, HOLY

order' his See also:

• NEPHEW

nephew See also:

• ARTHUR (Fr. Arius)
• ARTHUR, CHESTER ALAN (1830 – 1886)

Arthur's eyes to be burnt out . BLINDMAN'S-See also:

• BUFF (from Fr. bu.ffie, a buffalo)

BUFF (from an O . Fr. word, buffe, a See also:

• BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow, especially a blow on the cheek), a See also:

• GAME

game in which one player is blindfolded and made to catch and identify one of the others, who in See also:

• SPORT (a contracted or shortened form of "disport," to amuse, divert oneself, O. Fr. se dis porter or deporter, to leave off work, hence to play, Lat. dis-, away, and portare, to carry; the origin of the meaning lies in the notion of turning away from ser

sport push him about and " See also:

• BUFFET
• BUFFET, LOUIS JOSEPH (1818-1898)

buffet " him .