[syn: blister, scald, whip]
3. cause blisters to form on;
- Example: "the tight shoes and perspiration blistered her feet"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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Let my tongue blister. --Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Blister \Blis"ter\, v. t.
1. To raise a blister or blisters upon.
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My hands were blistered. --Franklin.
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2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
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This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue.
--Shak.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
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And painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
--Grainger.
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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.
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3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter,
applied to raise a blister. --Dunglison.
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Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the
Lytta vesicatoria (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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
blister
n 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
[syn: blister, bulla, bleb]
v 1: get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike"
[syn: blister, vesicate]
2: subject to harsh criticism; "The Senator blistered the
administration in his speech on Friday"; "the professor
scaled the students"; "your invectives scorched the
community" [syn: blister, scald, whip]
3: cause blisters to form on; "the tight shoes and perspiration
blistered her feet"