Definition of blister

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

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Blistering :: Blistering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bliste.
Blistered :: Blistered (imp. & p. p.) of Bliste.
Bleb :: Bleb (n.) A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc..
Meloe :: Meloe () A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil..
Blob :: Blob (n.) Something blunt and round; a small drop or lump of something viscid or thick; a drop; a bubble; a blister.
Blistery :: Blistery (a.) Full of blisters.
Topic :: Topic (n.) An external local application or remedy, as a plaster, a blister, etc..
Manchineel :: Manchineel (n.) A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple..
Bullate :: Bullate (a.) Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered.
Attrahent :: Attrahent (n.) A substance which, by irritating the surface, excites action in the part to which it is applied, as a blister, an epispastic, a sinapism..
Heteromerous :: Heteromerous (a.) Having five tarsal joints in the anterior and middle legs, but only four in the posterior pair, as the blister beetles and oil beetles..
Blister :: Blister (n.) A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister..
Tilting :: Tilting (n.) The process by which blister steel is rendered ductile by being forged with a tilt hammer.
Epispastic :: Epispastic (a.) Attracting the humors to the skin; exciting action in the skin; blistering.
Vesication :: Vesication (n.) The process of vesicating, or of raising blisters..
Vesicate :: Vesicate (v. t.) To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister.
Vesicatory :: Vesicatory (n.) A blistering application or plaster; a vesicant; an epispastic.
Cantharis :: Cantharis (n.) A beetle (Lytta, / Cantharis, vesicatoria), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called Spanish fly. Many other species of Lytta, used for the same purpose, take the same name. See Blister beetle, under Blister. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To have efficiency as an epispastic; to act as a sinapism; -- said of a blister, poultice, etc..
Yaw :: Yaw (v. i.) To rise in blisters, breaking in white froth, as cane juice in the clarifiers in sugar works..
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