2. 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.
3. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. Dunglison. Blister beetle, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the Lytta (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.
BLISTER
Blis"ter, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Blistered; p. pr. & vb. n. Blistering.]
Defn: To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister
form on.
Let my tongue blister. Shak.
BLISTER
Blis"ter, v. t.
1. To raise a blister or blisters upon. My hands were blistered. Franklin.
2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue. Shak.
BLISTERY
Blis"ter*y, a.
Defn: Full of blisters. Hooker.
BLITE
Blite, n. Etym: [L. blitum, Gr. .] (Bot.)