blain
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of blain
before 1000; Middle English blein ( e ), Old English blegene. See chilblain
Example Sentences
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De moonlighdt blayed oopon de drees, It shined oopon de blain, Two forms rode in de mitnight woods, Und nefer coomed again.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
The blain is more frequent in spring and summer than at other seasons of the year.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
Thorn and snow, blain and ache and bruise, were gone.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
For their sakes also puttest Pharaoh to pain By ten diverse plagues, as I shall here declare: By blood, frogs, and lice; by flies, death, blotches, and blain.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew
They haf daken atfandage of our bresence to regover a bortion of the blain.
From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)
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