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 William Carew Hazlitt
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
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
That is a lie, because I sboke as blain as anythin'.
From The Valley of the Kings by Marmaduke William Pickthall
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