1. [n]  (pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid
2. [v]  get blistered; "Her feet blistered during the long hike"
3. [v]  scorch with words; "blistering criticism; whipping comments"

Blister
Eleven-year-old Alyssa must cope with the death of her new baby sister and the subsequent collapse of her parents` marriage. Named one of the Best Children`s Books 2001 by Publishers Weekly.

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1. \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}.
   

2. \Blis"ter\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Blistered}; p. pr. &
   vb. n. {Blistering}.]
   To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister
   form on.
         Let my tongue blister.                   --Shak.
   

3. \Blis"ter\, v. t.
   1. To raise a blister or blisters upon.
            My hands were blistered.              --Franklin.
   2. To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.
            This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongue.
                                                  --Shak.