blain
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For their sakes also puttest Pharaoh to pain By ten diverse plagues, as I shall here declare: By blood, frogs, and lice; by flies, death, blotches, and blain.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by William Carew Hazlitt
Nevertheless the blain grew chillier and chillier until at last they were compelled to send for a physician.
From Bill the Minder by W. Heath (William Heath) Robinson
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 Andrew Lang
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 George Tobias Flom
It alwish seemed to me to be a beeg fish story, but it ish all blain to my mint now.
From Recitations for the Social Circle by James Clarence Harvey