An inflammatory swelling or sore

Usage examples of blain.

All right, maybe not the whole world, but those watching ESPN had seen him climb into the number twenty-six car, his team owner, Blain Sanders, helping him in.

Not only was he a brilliant engine builder, he was a good man, and Blain and his wife Cece were two of the nicest people Lance had the privilege to know.

Sarah felt touched and surprised that Cece had come to see her before, going inside her own home, Blain holding Randy in his arms.

Sarah said, glancing at Blain and Cece so they could add their insistence.

Sir Joseph Blain to favour us with his remarks on A True Gynandromorph recently added to his Cabinet.

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.

The fetters of the Greeks have been struck off, but the blains and excoriated marks of slavery are still conspicuous upon them.

These included “milliner’s sniffle, ploughman’s hunch, blains which pain the privy member, rat pox, cacky ear, trouser mite, the curly worms that worry from within” and sundry other terrible afflictions.

Yet she did not doubt that she would hear of him, as he scattered the bits and pieces he had carried from the church—the blains and poisons that caused suffering, even death, and those, like hellebore and nightshade, that could kill or cure.

Blain got up early in the morning and would pretend not to notice Afton 's excursions into the garden, where she continually looked for something, and Shayla's walks into the woods, where she collected her herbs.

Since she knew that only time would give them the answer, she listened as Hugh told Blain how he'd tended the farm animals with help from Shayla and her.