1. (n.) A vesicle of the skin, containing watery matter or serum, whether occasioned by a burn or other injury, or by a vesicatory; a collection of serous fluid causing a bladder like elevation of the cuticle.
2. (n.) 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. (n.) A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.
4. (v. i.) To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.
5. (v. t.) To raise a blister or blisters upon.
6. (v. t.) To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
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