blain
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De moonlighdt blayed oopon de drees, It shined oopon de blain, Two forms rode in de mitnight woods, Und nefer coomed again.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Charles Godfrey Leland
But I—" "We're blain beoble, miss, but we got a respegtable standing in the neighborhood for fifteen years.
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
"I guess you know it, Miss Lilly, that with all the honors we got by our daughter, we're still blain, respegtable beoble."
From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst
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
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