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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



... 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 ...
— Johnson's Notes to Shakespeare Vol. I Comedies • Samuel Johnson
... assistance I rendered in examining your very sick patient. I found the disease truly alarming, far beyond the reach of human aid, much deeper than bilious fever, although it might have assumed a typhoid grade. The blister that you were immediately to apply on the back of the patient could not extract that dark, deep plague-spot of slavery, ...
— A Woman's Life-Work - Labors and Experiences • Laura S. Haviland
... early summer. This fungus is very irritating to the mouths and feet of cattle, causing severe inflammation and the formation of a false membrane. In some instances this condition has been mistaken for foot-and-mouth disease, but it can be differentiated by the absence of the blister that is characteristic of that disease and by the further fact ...
— Special Report on Diseases of Cattle • U.S. Department of Agriculture
... the crackling sheet over his head. "'Darlin' Hiram, how could you leave me, but if you will come away with me now all will be forgiven and forgotten, from one who loves you truly and well, and has followed you to remind you of your promise.' My Gawd, Cap'n, ain't that something to raise a blister on the motto, 'God Bless ...
— The Skipper and the Skipped - Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul • Holman Day
... undergoing percussion, even getting uncomfortably warm. The natives of the South Pacific produce fire by rubbing pieces of dry wood together, but I never heard of their rapping sticks for the same purpose. I have seen a new, sharp knife made hot enough to raise a blister, whittling a clean dry stick of pine, and I would like to have "Spectrum" tell us, if in all the above cases percussion is the cause of the evolution of of heat, and what is friction doing in ...
— Scientific American, Vol.22, No. 1, January 1, 1870 • Various


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