blister

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1. 1.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.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. Let my tongue blister. Shak.
4. 4.To raise a blister or blisters upon. My hands were blistered. Franklin.
5. 5.To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. Shak.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is 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 called?
• What is to be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. Let my tongue blister. Shak called?
• What is to raise a blister or blisters upon. My hands were blistered. Franklin called?
• What is to give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. Shak called?