Usually means: Small fluid-filled skin bubble.
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  3. blister: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  9. blister: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. blister: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
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  13. blister (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. blister: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Blister (Portuguese band), Blister (TV series), Blister (disambiguation), Blister (song), Blister: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  17. blister: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. blister: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
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  22. Blister: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  23. blister: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  24. blister: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. Blister: Marquetry Glossary

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  2. blister: Legal dictionary

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Medicine (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. blister: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  1. blister, blister, blister: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Blister: Urban Dictionary

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  3. Blister: Building pathology glossary
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  6. Blister: Bottle Glossary
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  8. Blister: Fiberglass Glossary
  9. BLISTER: Industry Terms for Fiberglass
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noun:  A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease, or infection.
noun:  A swelling on a plant.
noun:  (medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
noun:  A bubble, as on a painted surface.
noun:  (roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.
noun:  A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
noun:  A cause of annoyance.
noun:  (uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
verb:  (transitive) To raise blisters on.
verb:  (cooking, transitive) To sear after blaching.
verb:  (intransitive) To have a blister form.
verb:  (transitive) To criticise severely.
verb:  (intransitive) To break out in blisters.

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