Usually means: Inflammation from cold, damages skin.
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  1. chilblain: Merriam-Webster
  2. chilblain: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. chilblain: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. chilblain: Collins English Dictionary
  5. chilblain: Vocabulary.com
  6. chilblain: Wordnik
  7. chilblain: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. chilblain: Wiktionary
  9. chilblain: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. chilblain: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. chilblain: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. chilblain: Dictionary.com
  13. chilblain: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Chilblain: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Chilblain: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. chilblain: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. chilblain: Rhymezone
  18. Chilblain: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. chilblain: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. chilblain: FreeDictionary.org
  21. chilblain: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. chilblain: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. chilblain: Encyclopedia

Medicine (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. chilblain: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Chilblain: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. chilblain: Medical dictionary
  6. Chilblain: Drug Medical Dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Chilblain, Chilblain, Chilblain: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. chilblain: Wordcraft Dictionary

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noun:  An itchy purple red inflammation of the skin, especially of the hands, feet and ears, occurring when capillaries below the skin are damaged by exposure to cold weather (but do not freeze, which would lead to frostbite instead).

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