blain
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In addition to these, blain, "to become white," is a Scand. loan-word, but rather from Dan. blegne than Norse blæikna, cp. blake above.
From Scandinavian influence on Southern Lowland Scotch by George Tobias Flom
They haf daken atfandage of our bresence to regover a bortion of the blain.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
Can't you virshta blain Eenglish ven you hears it?
From The End of the World A Love Story by Edward Eggleston
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
