blain

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The primary seat of blain, is the cellular substance beneath the integument of the part.

From The Dog by Youatt, William

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

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 Harvey, James Clarence

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 Lang, Andrew

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

From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William