noun. Plural form of chilblain.

noun. The condition of having chilblains.

noun. inflammation of the hands and feet caused by exposure to cold and moisture

"Tartars are affildled with ulcers, made by the cold, of the nature of what we call chilblains, but greatly worfe; and m Poland and Lithuania there rei {ns a peculiar difeafc called the plica poknlcaf fo terribly painful and pflfenHve, that fcarce any thing can be thought oi worie."

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