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blister(1) (iou)



blister noun. ME.
[Perh. from Old French blest(r)e, blo(u)stre swelling, pimple.]
A thin vesicle on the skin filled with serum, caused by friction, a burn, other injury, or disease. ME.
Medicine. An application to raise a blister. Now chiefly Hist. M16.
A swelling (filled with air or fluid) on the surface of a plant, cloth, cooled metal, painted wood, etc. L16.
An offensive or troublesome person; a worthless fellow. slang. E19.
A disease of peach trees caused by the fungus Taphrina deformans, which produces a distortion of the leaves. M19.
Nautical. An underwater outer covering fitted to a vessel. E20.
A summons. slang. E20.
A rounded compartment protruding from the body of an aeroplane. M20.
Comb.: blister-beetle, blister-fly any of various beetles of the family Meloidae, exuding a vesicant when disturbed, esp. Lytta vesicatoria (also called Spanish fly); blister blight a fungal disease of tea plants, producing blistered leaves; blister copper impure copper with a blistered appearance, obtained during smelting; blister-fly: see blister-beetle above; blister gas poison gas causing blisters on the skin; blister pack, blister packaging: consisting of a transparent moulded cover sealed to a card etc.; blister pearl an irregular pearly excrescence on an oyster-shell; blister steel carbon steel made by cementation, freq. with a blistered surface.
blistery adjective characterized by blisters LME.