Q. Are you troubled with chilblains?

"What else have you got ?" "Well, here's a wire puzzle, only I think a bit of it's lost, and the clasp of a cricket belt, and old Dick Rodman's chessboard and some of the men, and some stuff for chilblains, and" "Oh, dry up!" interrupted Acton; "what bosh!

"I'll bet yer all I got it's them air chilblains.

He shivered as he drew close to the fire, and asked in one breath for a prescription for chilblains and where might Abe be.

"Yew go fust," he urged Abe, "an' tell my wife that I've got the chilblains an' lumbago so bad I can't hardly git tew the house, an' I had ter come hum fer my 'St. Jerushy Ile' an' her receipt fer frosted feet.

Thus, for deafness, the juice of onion has been long recommended, and for chilblains, a Derbyshire cure is to thrash them with holly, while in some places the juice of the leek mixed with cream is held in repute.

Subject to chilblains Intellectually, these people vary enormously, depending upon which of the other glands will enlarge to compensate for the deficiency of the thyroid.

But, really, as long as you honour asceticism as a means of appeasing the angry deities, I shall prefer to St. Dominic's cuirass or St. Hedwiga's chilblains, John Mytton's two hours' crawl on the ice in his shirt, after a flock of wild ducks.

Karl Meek was a lanky, awkward hobbledehoy, with a tousled head of hair and long red hands, which were always covered with chilblains.

[Footnote: This absurd custom is a fruitful source of that distressing condition of the hands and feet, in winter, called "chilblains.

He was probably afflicted with chilblains, in consequence of the severity of the Tartarian climate.

It means a chilblain.]

They are at this identical moment under the snip and the paste of the fairest hands (bating chilblains) in Cambridge, soon to be transplanted to Suffolk, to the envy of half of the young ladies in Bury.

"I've been suffering from chilblains lately," says Eleseus.

And every one sympathized with Eleseus and his chilblains.

"That's the result of my last attack of chilblains," said Harry, desperately.

"Chilblains, sir?" came severely from Professor Such.

You think that he is weakened because a few of us got the chilblains last winter.

Chilblain, welcome, and welfare, drop one l. 7.

In a final unaccented syllable, it sometimes preserves the first sound of a; as in chilblain, mortmain: but oftener takes the sound of close or short i; as in certain, curtain, mountain, villain.

What about Seltanetta?" "Aha! at last I have touched the chilblain of your heart.

Thrice blessed then are our Boots, Gum, Thigh, though even these cannot altogether ward off frost-bite and chilblains.

Aunt Mercy discovered that I was afflicted with chilblains, and had a good cry over them, telling me, at the same moment, that my French slippers were the cause.

He whose chilblain has not yet broken out, how can he know the pains of others?

He considers it useful in various inflammatory affections, especially in opthalmia, or diseases of the eye, and chilblains.