DESCRIPTION: A chilblain is the swelling and inflammation of body tissue as a result of exposure to cold temperatures. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
"My fellow man sent me to the chilblain capital of the world," Petinos retorted. From Wordnik.com. [Bridge of the Separator]
You don't hardly hear of chilblain feet now, but then most every child you saw had cracked heels. From Wordnik.com. [Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4] Reference
The intense itching and burning of a chilblain may often be relieved by painting with iodine or triple chloride of iron (Monsel's solution). From Wordnik.com. [The Mother and Her Child] Reference
The train is full of very painful feet: like a form of large burning chilblain all over the foot, and you can't do anything for them, poor lambs. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915] Reference
Perhaps one of the chilblain-fingered girls behind the counters down below had been the "Sympathiser" to whom she had been indebted for a shilling. From Wordnik.com. [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference
When sliced, and applied externally, the raw Onion serves by its pungent and essential oil to quicken the circulation, and to redden the skin of the particular surface treated in this way; very usefully so in the case of an unbroken chilblain, or to counteract neuralgic pain; but in its crude state the bulb is not emollient or demulcent. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Forget these ghastly ads, all I want is chilblain cream. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
"Got a thorn in your shoe, or a stone-bruise, or a chilblain?". From Wordnik.com. [Vanguards of the Plains] Reference
I remember a chilblain that I had on my foot which would not get well. From Wordnik.com. [Marie Claire] Reference
Lucky for you you brought the poor boy out, when I thought him safe by the fire nursing his chilblain. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Hester, or, Ursula's Narrative] Reference
chilblains or chilblain are small, itchy swellings on the skin, which are not painful at first, but can become painful. From Wordnik.com. [Medlogs - Recent stories] Reference
But I was not so to be finished off, though feeling in my knuckles now as if it were a blueness and a sense of chilblain. From Wordnik.com. [Lorna Doone; a Romance of Exmoor] Reference
Cut an onion in two; take one-half of it, dip it in table salt and well rub, for two or three minutes, the chilblain with it. From Wordnik.com. [Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children] Reference
From the moment when the chilblain and the nest of the Mantis were known by the same name were not the virtues of the latter obvious?. From Wordnik.com. [Social Life in the Insect World] Reference
The moment she complains of headache, or toothache, or a chilblain on the heel, the angel game is off, and she's got to try and hold her own as a simple mortal. From Wordnik.com. [The Gay Lord Quex A Comedy in Four Acts] Reference
I limped out in time to be on hand before Miss Cobb got there, but what with a chilblain on my heel and hardly any sleep for two nights -- not to mention my toe -- I wasn't any too pleasant. From Wordnik.com. [Where there's a Will] Reference
When snowy or icy streets have been salted this may extend to severe inflammation, with vesicles, pustules, or even sloughs of circumscribed portions of the skin of the pastern (chilblain, frost-bite). From Wordnik.com. [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference
Mind, and muscle, and stamina, and soul, were challenged in a contest with this Shorty, a man who had never opened the books, and who did not know grand opera from rag-time, nor an epic from a chilblain. From Wordnik.com. [Smoke Bellew] Reference
Philip explained: “Brother Paul, on the bridge, has a chilblain, and Remigius won’t give him a fire.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Or chilblain are small, itchy swellings on the skin, which are not painful at first, but can become painful. From Wordnik.com. [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference
A chilblain on a cocktail-shaker's nose. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-01] Reference
Kybe or Kibe, a chilblain. From Wordnik.com. [The plays of William Shakespeare. In fifteen volumes. With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators] Reference
chilblain, 218-20. From Wordnik.com. [THE NATURAL REMEDY BIBLE] Reference
“Just a chilblain. From Wordnik.com. [The Pillars of the Earth]
Or chilblain lotion? ". From Wordnik.com. [Tunnel In The Sky]
Kibe, chilblain. killogie, fire-place of a lime-kiln. kilt, to upset, to tuck up. kinchin, child, baby. kinder, children. kist, chest, trunk, coffin. kittle, ticklish, capricious. knevelled, beaten, kneaded. From Wordnik.com. [Glossary] Reference
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