blister

[Blis·ter]

A blister is a fluid filled bubble people get where something rubs or burns the skin. Common causes are wearing fancy new shoes, playing sports, and trying to cook bananas flambé. Having a blister is no fun.

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A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.

Noun
(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

Verb
get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike"

Verb
cause blisters to from on; "the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet"

Verb
subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the community"


n.
A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.

n.
Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

n.
A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.

v. i.
To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.

v. t.
To raise a blister or blisters upon.

v. t.
To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.


Blister

Blis"ter , n. [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blow to eject wind.] 1. A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.
And painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
2. Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel. 3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis. -- Blister fly, a blister beetle. -- Blister plaster, a plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies. -- Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel. -- Blood blister. See under Blood.

Blister

Blis"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blistered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blistering.] To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
Let my tongue blister.

Blister

Blis"ter, v. t. 1. To raise a blister or blisters upon.
My hands were blistered.
2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue.

A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle.

To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.

To raise a blister or blisters upon.

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