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
Thorn and snow, blain and ache and bruise, were gone.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
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
They haf daken atfandage of our bresence to regover a bortion of the blain.
From Overland by J. W. (John William) De Forest
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
