blain
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of blain
before 1000; Middle English blein ( e ), Old English blegene. See chilblain
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And agony was writhing on his lip, Heart-rooted, awful agony and deep, Of fevers, and of plagues, and burning blain, And ague, and the palsy of the brain— A wierd and yellow spectre!
From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Andrew Lang
They haf daken atfandage of our bresence to regover a bortion of the blain.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
Nevertheless the blain grew chillier and chillier until at last they were compelled to send for a physician.
From Bill the Minder by W. Heath (William Heath) Robinson
The blain is more frequent in spring and summer than at other seasons of the year.
From The Dog by William Youatt
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 Charles Godfrey Leland
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