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cantharis |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Blister \Blis"ter\, n. [OE.; akin to OD bluyster, fr the same root as blast, bladder, blow. See {Blow} to eject wind.] 1. 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 bladderlike elevation of the cuticle. And painful blisters swelled my tender hands. --Grainger. 2. 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. A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister. --Dunglison. {Blister beetle}, a beetle used to raise blisters, esp. the {Lytta (or Cantharis) vesicatoria}, called {Cantharis} or {Spanish fly} by druggists. See {Cantharis}. {Blister fly}, a blister beetle. {Blister plaster}, a plaster designed to raise a blister; -- usually made of Spanish flies. {Blister steel}, crude steel formed from wrought iron by cementation; -- so called because of its blistered surface. Called also {blistered steel}. {Blood blister}. See under {Blood}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Cantharis \Can"tha*ris\, n.; pl {Cantharides}. [L., a kind of beetle, esp. the Spanish fly, Gr kanqari`s.] (Zo["o]l.) A beetle ({Lytta, or Cantharis, vesicatoria}), havin1g an elongated cylindrical body of a brilliant green color, and a nauseous odor; the blister fly or blister beetle, of the apothecary; -- also called {Spanish fly}. Many other species of {Lytta}, used for the same purpose, take the same name See {Blister beetle}, under {Blister}. The plural form in usually applied to the dried insects used in medicine.