blister
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Is blister a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.Examples: "'T is written in the Hebrew Chronicle, / How the physicians, leaving pill and potion, / Prescribed, by way of blister, a young belle, / When old King David's blood grew dull in motion, / And that the medicine answered very well […]"countableuncountable
2. (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.countableuncountable
3. (uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.uncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To raise blisters on.Examples: "a chemical agent that blisters the skin"; "Caliban: As wicked dewe, as ere my mother bruſh'd / With Rauens feather from vnwholeſome Fen / Drop on you both : A Southweſt blow on yee, / And bliſter you all ore."transitive
2. (cooking, transitive) To sear after blaching.transitive
3. (intransitive) To have a blister form.Examples: "A poorly formulated mortar mixture will result in plaster that blisters and cracks."; "An overfired glaze often blisters by the volatilization of part of its composition. It also reaches a stage where its viscosity is too low to keep it on the pot."intransitive
4. (transitive) To criticise severely.transitive
5. (intransitive) To break out in blisters.intransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary