blain
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of blain
before 1000; Middle English blein ( e ), Old English blegene. See chilblain
Example Sentences
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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
The primary seat of blain, is the cellular substance beneath the integument of the part.
From The Dog by Youatt, William
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.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.
Blained, adj. "half dry," said of linen hung out to dry, is, of course, simply the pp. of blain, cp.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias
But I—" "We're blain beoble, miss, but we got a respegtable standing in the neighborhood for fifteen years.
From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie
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