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
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
Can't you virshta blain Eenglish ven you hears it?
From The End of the World A Love Story by Edward Eggleston
In addition to these, blain, "to become white," is a Scand. loan-word, but rather from Dan. blegne than Norse blæikna, cp. blake above.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
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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