ppl. a. [f. prec. + -ED.]

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  1.  Affected with blisters, covered with vesicles.

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1563.  Hyll, Art Garden. (1593), 116. This hearb … healeth the blistred lungs.

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1886.  Stevenson, Dr. Jekyll, i. 4. The door … was blistered and distained.

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  b.  Of steel, etc.: cf. BLISTER sb. 4.

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1750.  Franklin, Wks. (1840), 225. Sometimes the surface … of the needle … appears blistered.

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1821.  R. Turner, Abridgm. Arts & Sc., 227. The iron combines with a quantity of carbon, and is converted into blistered steel.

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1870.  Eng. Mech., 18 Feb., 547/3. ‘Blistered’ copper is recognised by the surface being covered with scales of the oxide.

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  2.  Ornamented with puffs, puffed.

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1592.  Nashe, P. Penilesse, Wks. 1884, II. 391. His back … blisterd with light sarcenet bastings.

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1613.  Shaks., Hen. VIII., I. iii. 31. Short blistred Breeches.

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