Helen Fenton

Blister: Definition and part of speech

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Blister

  1. n. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.
  2. n. 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.
  3. n. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blight: Definition and part of speech

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Blight

  1. n. A rashlike eruption on the human skin.
  2. v. t. To affect with blight; to blast; to prevent the growth and fertility of.
  3. v. t. Hence: To destroy the happiness of; to ruin; to mar essentially; to frustrate; as, to blight one’s prospects.
  4. v. i. To be affected by blight; to blast; as, this vine never blights.
  5. n. Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; — applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.
  6. n. The act of blighting, or the state of being blighted; a withering or mildewing, or a stoppage of growth in the whole or a part of a plant, etc.
  7. n. That which frustrates one’s plans or withers one’s hopes; that which impairs or destroys.
  8. n. A downy species of aphis, or plant louse, destructive to fruit trees, infesting both the roots and branches; — also applied to several other injurious insects.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.