blain
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of blain
before 1000; Middle English blein ( e ), Old English blegene. See chilblain
Example Sentences
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The blain is more frequent in spring and summer than at other seasons of the year.
From The Dog by William Youatt
Thorn and snow, blain and ache and bruise, were gone.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
The primary seat of blain, is the cellular substance beneath the integument of the part.
From The Dog by William Youatt
Or if the ache of travel and of toil Would sometimes wring a short, sharp cry of pain From agony of fever, blain, and boil, 'Twas but to crush it down and on again!
From The Personal Life of David Livingstone by William Garden Blaikie
It alwish seemed to me to be a beeg fish story, but it ish all blain to my mint now.
From Recitations for the Social Circle by James Clarence Harvey
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