Definitions for: Blister


[n] (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
[v] get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike"
[v] scorch with words; "blistering criticism; whipping comments"



Webster (1913) Definition: 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.

And painful blisters swelled my tender hands.
--Grainger.

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.

3. 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.


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.

Let my tongue blister. --Shak.


Blis"ter, v. t.
1. To raise a blister or blisters upon.

My hands were blistered. --Franklin.

2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue.
--Shak.

Synonyms: bleb, bulla, vesicate, whip

See Also: assail, assault, attack, blood blister, cyst, intumesce, lash out, round, snipe, swell, swell up, tumefy, vesicle, water blister

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