BLISTERED

Verb

blistered

simple past tense and past participle of blister

Adjective

blistered (comparative more blistered, superlative most blistered)

Having one or more blisters

Source: Wiktionary

BLISTER

Blis"ter, n. Etym: [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blow to eject wind.]

1. A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. Grainger.

2. Any elevation made by the separation of the film or skin, as on plants; or by the swelling of the substance at the surface, as on steel.

3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria, called Cantharis or Spanish fly by druggists. See Cantharis.

– Blister fly, a blister beetle.

– Blister plaster, a plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies.

– Blister steel, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also blistered steel.

– Blood blister. See under Blood.

Blis"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blistered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blistering.]

Definition: To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on. Let my tongue blister. Shak.

Blis"ter, v. t.

1. To raise a blister or blisters upon. My hands were blistered. Franklin.

2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. Shak.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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