[f. prec.] trans. To affect with blains; to blister. Hence Blained ppl. a., Blaining vbl. sb.
[c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 4. Wiþ ʓebleʓnadre tungan.]
1394. P. Pl. Crede, 299. Nou han þei bucled schon for bleynynge of her heles.
1830. Galt, in Fraser’s Mag., I. 269. The recoiling boughs had … sorely blained … his cheeks.
