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 Leland, Charles Godfrey

That is a lie, because I sboke as blain as anythin'.

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

Thorn and snow, blain and ache and bruise, were gone.

From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter

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 Flom, George Tobias

But I—" "We're blain beoble, miss, but we got a respegtable standing in the neighborhood for fifteen years.

From Star-Dust by Hurst, Fannie