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Blister   /blˈɪstər/   Listen
Blister

noun
1.
A flaw on a surface resulting when an applied substance does not adhere (as an air bubble in a coat of paint).
2.
(botany) a swelling on a plant similar to that on the skin.
3.
(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid.  Synonyms: bleb, bulla.
verb
(past & past part. blistered; pres. part. blistering)
1.
Get blistered.  Synonym: vesicate.
2.
Subject to harsh criticism.  Synonyms: scald, whip.  "The professor scaled the students" , "Your invectives scorched the community"
3.
Cause blisters to form on.



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"Blister" Quotes from Famous Books



... "Holla, old Blister! art thou there?" said the King, good- humouredly. "What! knowest not that we are to have such a wedding as will be ...
— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge
... [Who falling in the flaws of her own youth, Hath blister'd her report] Who doth not see that the integrity of the metaphor requires we should read, —flames of her ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... wedded to the unpardonable heresy that, in the nineteenth century, it was a woman's privilege to be as learned as Cuvier, or Sir William Hamilton, or Humboldt, provided the learning was accurate, and gave out no hollow, counterfeit ring under the merciless hammering of the dragons. If women chose to blister their fair, tender hands in turning the windlass of that fabled well where truth is hidden, and bruised their pretty, white feet in groping finally on the rocky bottom, was the treasure which they ultimately discovered and dragged to light any the less truth because ...
— St. Elmo • Augusta J. Evans
... a lot of caterpillars and blister beetles and things, and they ate everything up, don't ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson
... could I know what gentlemin is saying over their punch, together? only they do be sayin' in Ballinamore, that the Captain doesn't spake that dacently of Miss Feemy, as if they wor to be man and wife: sorrow blister his tongue the day he'd say a bad ...
— The Macdermots of Ballycloran • Anthony Trollope


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