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  • noun Plural form of blister.

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Examples

  • If you're in a kayak, it's handy to put on the big toes or heals of barefeet to prevent blisters from a dau of friction with the inside of the hull.

    If you can't Duct it... 2009

  • If you're in a kayak, it's handy to put on the big toes or heals of barefeet to prevent blisters from a dau of friction with the inside of the hull.

    If you can't Duct it... 2009

  • Contrary to popular belief, the fluid in blisters caused by poison ivy, oak and sumac doesn not spread the rash.

    Summertime Skin Irritants 2010

  • SIX FUCKING HOURS in the mall before I found a pair that didn't instantly give me blisters from the mere act of me looking at them. lugar: Somnambularium disposición: drained música: los hamsteros

    Museum Internship zhukora1 2007

  • The mountains were spectacular despite blisters from a short hike and it was neat to see part of a glacier.

    breathing space librariane 2007

  • The mountains were spectacular despite blisters from a short hike and it was neat to see part of a glacier.

    Archive 2007-05-01 librariane 2007

  • [A] Hardened resin blisters found on the trunks of spruce and pine trees

    Winter Survival Quiz by Field & Stream's Keith McCafferty 2005

  • In addition to those two, there are kids who are retarded, girls who are missing limbs, and one young man whose skin blisters and falls off when touched.

    Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2003

  • The word blisters the air, though your lips be as two drops of June rain.

    The Flutter of the Goldleaf; and Other Plays Frederick Peterson 1918

  • A few degrees the other way, and my skin blisters and shrivels away from the raw, quivering flesh.

    Chapter 1 -- Foreword 1913

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    July 15, 2008

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    July 15, 2008

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    July 15, 2008