Definitions for blains

blains blain

Spelling: [bleyn]
IPA: /bleɪn/

Blains is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 148 anagrams from letters in blains (abilns).

Definitions for blains

noun

  1. an inflammatory swelling or sore.

Origin of blains

before 1000; Middle English blein(e), Old English blegene. See chilblain

Examples for blains

We had lice, boils and blains, and flies—particularly and perpetually, flies.

Did two handfuls of ashes literally become the blains upon the bodies of all the Egyptians?

The ashes of the furnace became a small dust in all the land of Egypt, breaking forth with blains upon man and beast.

Besides, I wait only until I am healed of my blains and thorns, and my shoulder is quite whole again.

After "all the cattle" were dead, a boil was sent, breaking forth with blains upon man and beast.

blains are a kind of diminutive carbuncle, but are not so hard, black, and fiery; sometimes there is a little core in them.

Our commentator attempts to account for the sixth plague of boils and blains with equal ingenuity.

Besides these, there were the tokens (specially limited in meaning to livid spots on the skin), carbuncles and blains.

Word Value for blains
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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