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n. - A chemical agent that causes blistering (especially mustard gas) adj. - Causing blisters.

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Usage examples (9)
  • Vesicatorium (Blistering plaster; vesicatory plaster). 1 lb.
  • But, alas! like that of many queens, the felicity did not last long; before morning, I heard her saying to her sister, in a doleful tone, 'Soffy, will you have my...
  • Now, there was likely to be some difficulty about getting her to submit quietly to this operation, so, after an instant's reflection, I called both her and her sister, and told...
  • (The Mezereum Tribe.) According to Lindley, the great feature of this tribe is the causticity of the bark, which acts upon the skin as a vesicatory, and causes excessive...
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