BLIGHT

n. Blit. Ger., Mehlthau, Brand. A withering, or anything producing it, in an animal or a vegetable organism.— Barberry b. See cr berberidis,—B. in the eye. An obsolete term for a catarrhal inflammation of the eyelids accomnied with spots on the cornea. [F.|—Sandy b. A popular term for a form of ophthalmia accompanied by the formation of tenacious pus in the mouths of the Meibomian glands, causing photophobia and a sensation of Here, and sometimes ending in ulceration of the cornea. [J. Reid, * Austral as. Med. Gaz.,” May, 1885, p. 183.]