blain

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The primary seat of blain, is the cellular substance beneath the integument of the part.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

They haf daken atfandage of our bresence to regover a bortion of the blain.

From Overland by De Forest, J. W. (John William)

And no philosophic theory condescends to bring the Ideal, the Absolute, and the Unconditioned, into such close and intimate connection with the frog-spawn of the ditch and the blain upon the tortured skin.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus by Chadwick, G. A.

Blained, adj. "half dry," said of linen hung out to dry, is, of course, simply the pp. of blain, cp.

From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by Flom, George Tobias

And agony was writhing on his lip, Heart-rooted, awful agony and deep, Of fevers, and of plagues, and burning blain, And ague, and the palsy of the brain— A wierd and yellow spectre!

From The Death-Wake or Lunacy; a Necromaunt in Three Chimeras by Lang, Andrew