blain

[ bleyn ]
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nounPathology.
  1. an inflammatory swelling or sore.

Origin of blain

1
before 1000; Middle English blein(e), Old English blegene.See chilblain

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How to use blain in a sentence

  • The blain is a watery vesicle in the second joint of the wing.

  • It alwish seemed to me to be a beeg fish story, but it ish all blain to my mint now.

    Recitations for the Social Circle | James Clarence Harvey
  • She got up at four one morning to sit with old Betty blain, that her daughter might get a little rest.'

    Heartsease | Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Nevertheless the blain grew chillier and chillier until at last they were compelled to send for a physician.

    Bill the Minder | W. Heath Robinson
  • Sam blain, we've come to make them foxes, you were telling of a Sunday, smell h-ll right straight away.

    Warwick Woodlands | Henry William Herbert (AKA Frank Forester)

British Dictionary definitions for blain

blain

/ (bleɪn) /


noun
  1. a blister, blotch, or sore on the skin

Origin of blain

1
Old English blegen; related to Middle Low German bleine

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