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blister

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Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
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blis=ter

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun blister has 3 senses

Verb blister has 3 senses

CIDE DICTIONARY

blistern. [OE.; akin to OD. bluyster, fr. the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See Blow to eject wind.].
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
    "And painful blisters swelled my tender hands."  [1913 Webster]
  •  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.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.  Dunglison.  [1913 Webster]
Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta vesicatoria (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.
blisterv. i. 
     To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.  [1913 Webster]
    "Let my tongue blister."  [1913 Webster]
blisterv. t. 
  •  To raise a blister or blisters upon.  [1913 Webster]
    "My hands were blistered."  [1913 Webster]
  •  To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.  [1913 Webster]
    "This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

blister, n. & v.
--n.
1 a small bubble on the skin filled with serum and caused by friction, burning, etc.
2 a similar swelling on any other surface.
3 Med. anything applied to raise a blister.
4 sl. an annoying person.
--v.
1 tr. raise a blister on.
2 intr. come up in a blister or blisters.
3 tr. attack sharply (blistered them with his criticisms).

Idiom
blister copper copper which is almost pure. blister gas a poison gas causing blisters on the skin. blister pack a bubble pack.
Derivative
blistery adj.
Etymology
ME perh. f. OF blestre, blo(u)stre swelling, pimple

THESAURUS

blister

abscess, air bubble, aposteme, assail, attack, balloon, bed sore, bilge, birthmark, blackhead, bladder, blain, blaze, bleb, blemish, blob, blood blister, boil, boss, bow, brand, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, burn, burn in, burn off, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, cast, castigate, cauterize, chancre, chancroid, char, check, chilblain, chine, cicatrix, clump, coal, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, cupel, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, ear, eschar, excoriate, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fistula, flame, flange, flap, flaw, flay, found, freckle, furuncle, furunculus, fustigate, gall, gathering, globule, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, lash, lentigo, lesion, lip, loop, lump, milium, mole, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, oxidate, oxidize, papilloma, papula, papule, parch, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pustule, pyrolyze, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, roast, scab, scar, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, scratch, sear, sebaceous cyst, shoulder, singe, skin alive, slash, soap bubble, soft chancre, solder, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, swinge, tab, torrefy, track, trounce, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, verruca, vesicate, vesicle, vulcanize, wale, warp, wart, weal, weld, welt, wen, wheal, whelk, whitehead, whitlow, wound

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Convexity

N convexity, prominence, projection, swelling, gibbosity, bilge, bulge, protuberance, protrusion, camber, cahot, thank-ye-ma'am, swell, intumescence, tumour, tumor, tubercle, tuberosity, excrescence, hump, hunch, bunch, boss, embossment, hub, hubble, tooth, knob, elbow, process, apophysis, condyle, bulb, node, nodule, nodosity, tongue, dorsum, bump, clump, sugar loaf, bow, mamelon, molar, belly, corporation, pot belly, gut, withers, back, shoulder, lip, flange, pimple, zit, wen, wheel, papula, pustule, pock, proud flesh, growth, sarcoma, caruncle, corn, wart, pappiloma, furuncle, polypus, fungus, fungosity, exostosis, bleb, blister, blain, boil, airbubble, blob, papule, verruca, papilla, nipple, teat, tit, titty, boob, knocker, pap, breast, dug, mammilla, proboscis, nose, neb, beak, snout, nozzle, schnoz, peg, button, stud, ridge, rib, jutty, trunnion, snag, cupola, dome, arch, balcony, eaves, pilaster, relief, relievo, cameo, bassorilievo, mezzorilevo, altorivievo, low relief, bas relief, high relief, hill, cape, promontory, mull, forehead, foreland, point of land, mole, jetty, hummock, ledge, spur, naze, ness, convex, prominent, protuberant, projecting, bossed, embossed, bossy, nodular, bunchy, clavate, clavated, claviform, hummocky, moutonne, mammiliform, papulous, papilose, hemispheric, bulbous, bowed, arched, bold, bellied, tuberous, tuberculous, tumous, cornute, odontoid, lentiform, lenticular, gibbous, club shaped, hubby, hubbly, knobby, papillose, saddle-shaped, selliform, subclavate, torose, ventricose, verrucose, salient, in relief, raised, repousse, bloated, (expanded).

Heat

VB be hot, glow, flush, sweat, swelter, bask, smoke, reek, stew, simmer, seethe, boil, burn, blister, broil, blaze, flame, smolder, parch, fume, pant, heat, recalesce, thaw, give.

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