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.
A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.
A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.
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.
A bubble, as on a painted surface.
Hyponyms: bulla, vesicle, vesicula.
A cause of annoyance.
A swelling on a plant.
Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.
To break out in blisters.
To sear after blaching.
To raise blisters on.
To have a blister form.
To criticise severely.
A localized accumulation of pus in the skin, resulting from infection.
The point at which fluid begins to change to a vapour; the boiling point.
A dish of boiled food, especially seafood.
A social event at which people gather to boil and eat food, especially seafood. (Compare a bake or clambake.)
The collective noun for a group of hawks.
To form, or separate, by boiling or evaporation.
To feel uncomfortably hot.
To be moved or excited with passion; to be hot or fervid.
To bring to a boil, to heat so as to cause the contents to boil.
To begin to turn into a gas, seethe.
To heat to the point where it begins to turn into a gas.
To be uncomfortably hot.
To cook in boiling water.
To be agitated like boiling water; to bubble; to effervesce.