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chillblain

chillblain is the alternative form of chilblain.

Meaning of chilblain

Noun

chilblain (plural chilblains)

  1. 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).
    • Faith and those chilblanes are a foul trouble, Mistresse Merie-thought when your youth comes home, let him rub all the soles of his feete, and the heeles, and his ancles, with a mouse skinne, or if none of your people can catch a mouse, when hee goes to bed, let him rowle his feete in the warme...1607 (first performance), [Francis Beaumont], The Knight of the Burning Pestle, London: […] [Nicholas Okes] for Walter Burre, […], published 1613, →OCLC, Act III, signature F3, recto
    Synonyms:
    erythema pernio, pernio, kibe

Forms of chillblain

pluralchillblains

Questions about chillblain

What is chillblain the alternative form of?
Chillblain is the alternative form of chilblain.

Words near chillblain in the dictionary

  1. chillaxers
  2. chillaxes
  3. chillaxin
  4. chillaxin'
  5. chillaxing
  6. chillblain
  7. chillblained
  8. chillblains
  9. chilled
  10. chilled it with
  11. chilled out

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