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 Definitions for blister: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Blister \Blis"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blistered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Blistering.]
To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister
form on.
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Let my tongue blister. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Blister \Blis"ter\, v. t.
1. To raise a blister or blisters upon.
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My hands were blistered. --Franklin.
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2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue.
--Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Blister \Blis"ter\, n. [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same
root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blow to eject wind.]
1. A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum,
whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a
vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a
bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
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And painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
--Grainger.
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2. Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin,
as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the
surface, as on steel.
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3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter,
applied to raise a blister. --Dunglison.
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Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the
Lytta vesicatoria (or Cantharis vesicatoria), called
Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See
Cantharis.
Blister fly, a blister beetle.
Blister plaster, a plaster designed to raise a blister; --
usually made of Spanish flies.
Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by
cementation; -- so called because of its blistered
surface. Called also blistered steel.
Blood blister. See under Blood.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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blister
n : (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous
fluid [syn: bulla, bleb]
v 1: get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike"
[syn: vesicate]
2: subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the
administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor
scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the
community" [syn: scald, whip]
3: cause blisters to from on; "the tight shoes and perspiration
blistered her feet"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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198 Moby Thesaurus words for "blister":
abscess, air bubble, aposteme, assail, attack, balloon, bed sore,
bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, blaze, bleb, blemish,
blob, blood blister, boil, boss, bow, brand, bubble, bubo, bulb,
bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, burn, burn in, burn off,
button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, cast, castigate,
cauterize, chancre, chancroid, char, check, chilblain, chine,
cicatrix, clump, coal, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack,
crater, craze, cupel, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity,
disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, eschar,
excoriate, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula,
flame, flange, flap, flaw, flay, found, freckle, furuncle,
furunculus, fustigate, gall, gathering, globule, gnarl, gumboil,
handle, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog,
joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lash, lentigo,
lesion, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar,
nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oxidate, oxidize, papilloma, papula,
papule, parch, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple,
pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain,
pustule, pyrolyze, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, roast, scab,
scar, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, scratch, sear,
sebaceous cyst, shoulder, singe, skin alive, slash, soap bubble,
soft chancre, solder, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark,
stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, swinge, tab, torrefy,
track, trounce, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration,
verruca, vesicate, vesicle, vulcanize, wale, warp, wart, weal,
weld, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound
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