DEFINITIONS

blain

[ bleyn ]
/ bleɪn /
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noun Pathology.

an inflammatory swelling or sore.

Words related to blain

abscess, sore, welt, ulcer, cyst, pimple, carbuncle, wale, weal, sac, bubble, burn, vesicle, canker, boil, vesication, furuncle, bleb, pustule, wheal

Words nearby blain

blagonravov, blagoveshchensk, blague, blah, blah-blah-blah, blain, blaine, blainville, blair, blair's babes, blair-brown graft

Origin of blain

before 1000; Middle English blein(e), Old English blegene. See chilblain
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Examples from the Web for blain

  • It alwish seemed to me to be a beeg fish story, but it ish all blain to my mint now.

    Recitations for the Social Circle|James Clarence Harvey

  • The blain is a watery vesicle in the second joint of the wing.

    The Art and Practice of Hawking|Edward B. Michell

  • Nevertheless the blain grew chillier and chillier until at last they were compelled to send for a physician.

    Bill the Minder|W. Heath Robinson

  • They haf daken atfandage of our bresence to regover a bortion of the blain.

    Overland|John William De Forest

British Dictionary definitions for blain

blain
/ (bleɪn) /

noun

a blister, blotch, or sore on the skin

Word Origin for blain

Old English blegen; related to Middle Low German bleine
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Medicine definitions for blain

blain
[ blān ]

n.

A skin swelling or sore; a blister; a blotch.
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