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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (3)

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]


VERB (3)

1. get blistered;
- Example: "Her feet blistered during the long hike"
[syn: blister, vesicate]

2. subject to harsh criticism;
- Example: "The Senator blistered the administration in his speech on Friday"
- Example: "the professor scaled the students"
- Example: "your invectives scorched the community"
[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. [1913 Webster] Let my tongue blister. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Blister \Blis"ter\, v. t. 1. To raise a blister or blisters upon. [1913 Webster] My hands were blistered. --Franklin. [1913 Webster] 2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. [1913 Webster] This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster] And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. --Grainger. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] 3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. --Dunglison. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
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"