Blister vs. Glister — What's the Difference?

A blister is a small pocket of body fluid (lymph, serum, plasma, blood, or pus) within the upper layers of the skin, usually caused by forceful rubbing (friction), burning, freezing, chemical exposure or infection. Most blisters are filled with a clear fluid, either serum or plasma.

To glisten.

A local swelling of the skin that contains watery fluid and is caused by burning or irritation.

Glitter; brilliance.

A similar swelling on a plant.

To gleam, glisten or coruscate.

A raised bubble, as on a painted or laminated surface.

A brilliant flash; a glint

A rounded, bulging, usually transparent structure, such as one used for observation on certain aircraft or for display and protection of packaged products.

Alternative form of clyster

To cause a blister to form on.

To be bright; to sparkle; to be brilliant; to shine; to glisten; to glitter.

To reprove harshly.

Glitter; luster.

To break out in or as if in blisters.

The quality of glittering or sparkling brightly

A small bubble between the layers of the skin that contains watery or bloody fluid and is caused by friction and pressure, burning, freezing, chemical irritation, disease or infection.

A swelling on a plant.

(medicine) Something applied to the skin to raise a blister; a vesicatory or other applied medicine.

A bubble, as on a painted surface.

(roofing) An enclosed pocket of air, which may be mixed with water or solvent vapor, trapped between impermeable layers of felt or between the membrane and substrate.

A type of pre-formed packaging made from plastic that contains cavities.

A cause of annoyance.

(uncountable) A form of smelted copper with a blistered surface.

(transitive) To raise blisters on.

To sear after blaching.

(intransitive) To have a blister form.

(transitive) To criticise severely.

(intransitive) To break out in blisters.

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.

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.

A vesicatory; a plaster of Spanish flies, or other matter, applied to raise a blister.

To be affected with a blister or blisters; to have a blister form on.

To raise a blister or blisters upon.

To give pain to, or to injure, as if by a blister.

(pathology) an elevation of the skin filled with serous fluid

Get blistered;

Subject to harsh criticism;

Cause blisters to from on;