Blain: Definition and part of speech

Blain

  1. n. A bladder growing on the root of the tongue of a horse, against the windpipe, and stopping the breath.
  2. n. An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.

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.

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