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n. [ OE. blod, blood, AS. blōd; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. blōþ, Icel. blōð, Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom. ] 1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. [ 1913 Webster ]

To share the blood of Saxon royalty. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

A friend of our own blood. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. --
Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. The fleshy nature of man. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. [ 1913 Webster ]

So wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
Till blood for blood atones. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. [ 1913 Webster ]

When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. [ 1913 Webster ]

Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

10. The juice of anything, especially if red. [ 1913 Webster ]

He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. Gen. xiix. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism. --
Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury. --
Blood brother, brother by blood or birth. --
Blood clam (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh. --
Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle. --
Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the hæmoglobin of the red blood corpuscles; hæmatocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals. --
Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 981/2 ° Fahr. --
Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock. --
Blood money. See in the Vocabulary. --
Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp. --
Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; toxæmia. --
Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials. --
Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent. --
Blood spavin. See under Spavin. --
Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary. --
Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover , has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family. --
Flesh and blood. (a) A blood relation, esp. a child. (b) Human nature. --
In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor. Shak. --
To let blood. See under Let. --
Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooding. ] 1. To bleed. [ Obs. ] Cowper. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Reach out their spears afar,
And blood their points. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. [ 1913 Webster ]

It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Indiscriminate slaughter; the killing of multiple persons.
Syn. -- bloodletting, bloodshed, battue. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. [ fig. ] Substantial losses by many people, as in a mass termination of employment or widespread financial loss; as, the sudden market drop created a bloodbath among overoptimistic investors. [ PJC ]

n. A bushy houseplant (Rivina humilis) having white to pale pink flowers followed by racemes of scarlet berries; it is native to the tropical Americas.
Syn. -- rougeberry, rouge plant. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Blood + Prov. E. bolter to mat in tufts. Cf. Balter. ] Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [ Obs. & R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. causing sudden intense fear due to an apprehension of imminent bodily harm, to oneself or others. Awakened by a bloodcurdling scream from right outside her window
Syn. -- hair-raising, nightmarish. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Used also in composition in phrases indicating a particular condition or quality of blood; as, cold-blooded; warm-blooded. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the color of the flower. ] (Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of Hæmanthus toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Guilty of murder or bloodshed. “A bloodguilty life.” Fairfax. -- Blood"guilt`i*ness n. -- Blood"guilt`less, a. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Covered with blood.
Syn. -- gory, sanguinary. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being bloody. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. blōdleás. ] 1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead. [ 1913 Webster ]

The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Without spirit or activity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood ! Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Blood"less*ly, adv. -- Blood"less*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ AS. blōdl&aemacr_;tan; blōd blood + l&aemacr_;atan to let. ] bleed; to let blood. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Med.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a desire for bloodshed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a motor vehicle equipped to collect blood donations. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

1. Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge, of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of that which will destroy the purchaser. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. having any of numerous bright or strong colors reminiscent of the color of cherries or tomatoes or rubies or blood.
Syn. -- red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. related by blood, i.e. by a common genetic heritage.
Syn. -- akin(predicate), cognate, consanguine, consanguineous, kin(predicate). [ WordNet 1.5

n. (Bot.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In England the name is given to the tormentil, once used as a remedy for dysentery. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Blood + shed ] The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Bloodshed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Blood + shot, p. p. of shoot to variegate. ] Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. [ 1913 Webster ]

His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Bloodshot. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. stained with blood; as, a bloodstained shirt; a bloodstained carpet; a bloodstained sidewalk. [ PJC ]

n. (Far.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. thoroughbred horses (collectively). [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Min.) (a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope. (b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or “streak.” [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. coup de sang. ] Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Zool.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. drawing blood from the body of another; as, a plague of bloodsucking insects. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another; -- of plants or persons; as, a bloodsucking blackmailer; bloodsucking lawyers.
Syn. -- parasitic, parasitical, leechlike. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous; having a bloodlust. -- Blood"thirst`i*ness (&unr_;), n. [1913 Webster]

n. 1. a European deciduous shrub (Cornus sanguinea) turning red in autumn having dull white flowers.
Syn. -- common European dogwood, red dogwood, pedwood. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) The European bullfinch. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Anat.) Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ AS. blōwīte; blōd blood, + wīte wite, fine. ] (Anc. Law) A fine or amercement paid as part of a settlement for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood. [ 1913 Webster ]

Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia Hæmatoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( Hæmatoxylon campechianum). [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ AS. blōdig. ] 1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [ Vulgar ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bloodied p. pr. & vb. n. Bloodying. ] To stain with blood. Overbury. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A terrible bugbear. [ 1913 Webster ]

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. Jacob. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Her.) A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom. [ 1913 Webster ]