BLAIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blain mean? 

• BLAIN (noun)
  The noun BLAIN has 1 sense:

1. an inflammatory swelling or sore

  Familiarity information: BLAIN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLAIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An inflammatory swelling or sore

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("blain" is a kind of...):

sore (an open skin infection)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "blain"):

chilblain; chilblains; pernio (inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture)

 Context examples 

A chaise was sent for from Crewkherne, and Charles conveyed back a far more useful person in the old nursery-maid of the family, one who having brought up all the children, and seen the very last, the lingering and long-petted Master Harry, sent to school after his brothers, was now living in her deserted nursery to mend stockings and dress all the blains and bruises she could get near her, and who, consequently, was only too happy in being allowed to go and help nurse dear Miss Louisa.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)