blain
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of blain
before 1000; Middle English blein ( e ), Old English blegene. See chilblain
Example Sentences
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Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss.
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Our commentator attempts to account for the sixth plague of boils and blains with equal ingenuity.
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Nevertheless the blain grew chillier and chillier until at last they were compelled to send for a physician.
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And no philosophic theory condescends to bring the Ideal, the Absolute, and the Unconditioned, into such close and intimate connection with the frog-spawn of the ditch and the blain upon the tortured skin.
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Thorn and snow, blain and ache and bruise, were gone.
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