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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Blōod, n. p. 142The fluid which circulates through the arteries and veins of the human body, and of other animals. This fluid is generally red; but in the molluscous and inferior animals it is white or colorless…Blôod, v. t. p. 143To let blood from; to bleed. 2. To stain with blood. Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points to prove their partnership in war. Dryden. 3. To inure to blood, as a hound. It was important…Blôod, v. i. p. 143To be bled; to bleed. “Alack! let it blood.” Shak.Blōod'-băp'/tism, n. p. 143(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.Blôod'-be-spôt'ted, a. p. 143Spotted with blood. Shak.Blōod'-bōl'tered, a. p. 143Sprinkled with blood, as from a sieve or bolter. [Obs.] “Blood-boltered Banquo smiles.” Shak.Blôod'-bought, a. p. 143Bought or obtained at the expense of life, or by the shedding of blood.Blôod'-brôth'er, n. p. 143Brother by blood or birth.Blôod'-dyed, a. p. 143Dyed with blood.Blôod'-flow'er, n. p. 143(Bot.) A genus of bulbous plants, natives of Southern Africa, named Hæmanthus, of the Amaryllis family. The juice of H. toxicarius is used by the Hottentots to poison their arrows. Baird.Blôod'-frōz'en, a. p. 143Having the blood chilled. Spenser.Blôod'-full, a. p. 143Full of blood, spirit, or ardor. [Obs. and rare.] Marston.Blôod'-guilt'i-ness, n. p. 143The guilt or crime of shedding blood. “Deliver me from blood-guiltiness.” Ps. li. 14.Blôod'-guilt'y, a. p. 143Guilty of murder. “A blood-guilty life.” Fairfax.Blōod'-hēat, n. p. 143Heat equal to the temperature of blood, or about 98° Fahr.Blôod'-hôrse, n. p. 143A horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly-prized origin or stock.Blŏod'-hŏt, a. p. 143As warm as blood in its natural temperature.Blŏod'-hound, n. p. 143A variety of dog, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, remarkable for the acuteness of its smell, and employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, by tracing it by the…Blôod'i-ly, adv. p. 143In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.Blōod'i-ness, n. p. 143The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; blood-thirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.Blōod'less, a. p. 143Without blood; dead. The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold. Dryden. 2. Without shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. Here may be seen, in bloodless pomp arrayed, The pasteboard…Blōod'less-ly, adv. p. 143Without bloodshed.Blŏod'lĕt, v. t. p. 143To bleed; to let blood. Arbuthnot.Blôod'-lêt'ter, n. p. 143One who lets blood, as in diseases; a phlebotomist.Blôod'-lĕt'ting, n. p. 143(Med.) The act of letting blood or bleeding by opening a vein; venesection. When blood is drawn by opening an artery, it is called arteriotomy. Dunglison.Blôod'-märked, a. p. 143Marked with blood.Blōod'-pud-ding, n. p. 143A pudding made with blood and other materials.Blôod'-rĕd, a. p. 143Red as blood.Blôod'-re-lā'tion, n. p. 143One connected by blood or descent.Blŏod'root, n. p. 143A plant so named from the color of its root; a species of Sanguinaria (S. Canadensis), called also puccoon, turmeric, red-root, and blood-wort. S. F. Baird. Bigelow.Blood'-shak'en, a. p. 143Having the blood in commotion. B. Jonson.Blóod'shĕd, n. p. 143The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; waste of life; the crime of shedding blood.Blood'-shĕd'der, n. p. 143One who sheds blood; a murderer. He that defraudeth the laborer of his hire is a blood-shedder. Ecclus. xxxiv. 22.Blood'-shĕd'ding, n. p. 143The shedding of blood; the crime of shedding blood. These hands are free from guiltless blood-shedding. Shak.Blood'-shŏt or Blood'-shŏt'ten, a. p. 143Red and inflamed by a turgid state of the blood-vessels, as in diseases of the eye. His eyes were blood-shot, his dress was disordered, and his hair disheveled. Dickens.Blood'-spā'vin, n. p. 143(Far.) A dilatation of the vein that runs along the inside of the hock of a horse, forming a soft swelling.Blood'-spill'ing, v. p. 143Shedding blood.Blōod'-stāined, a. p. 143Stained with blood; guilty of murder.Blood'-stōne, n. p. 143(Min.) (a.) A green silicious stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; — called also heliotrope. (b.) Hematite; a brown ore of iron. Dana.Blood'-strōke, n. p. 143The loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.Blood'-sŭck'er, n. p. 143Any animal that sucks blood; specifically applied to the leech (Sanguisuga medicinalis). Baird. 2. A cruel man; a murderer. A knot you are of damned blood-suckers. Shak.Blood'-sŭck'ing, a. p. 143That sucks or draws blood. “Blood-sucking sighs.” Shak.Blood'-swelled, a. p. 143Swelled with blood.Blood'-thirst'/i-ness, n. p. 143Thirst for shedding blood; a murderous disposition.Blood'-thirst'y, a. p. 143Desirous to shed blood; murderous.Blood'-vĕs'sel, n. p. 143Any vessel in which blood circulates in an animal body; an artery or a vein. Dunglison.Blood'-warm, a. p. 143Warm as blood; lukewarm.Blȯod'wīte, n. p. 143(Anc. Law.) A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; a riot wherein blood was spilled. Tomlins.Blȯod'-wȯn, a. p. 143Won by shedding blood. Scott.Blȯod'-wŏŏd, n. p. 143Logwood; — so called from its color.Blȯod'wort, n. p. 143A plant; a species of Rumex. 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…Blood'y, a. p. 143Stained with or containing blood. “Bloody clods.” E. Everett. 2. Given to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. 3.…Blood'y, v. t. p. 143To stain with blood. Overbury.Blood'y-e'yed, a. p. 143Having bloody or cruel eyes.Blōod’y-fāced, a. p. 143Having a bloody face or appearance. Shak.Blood'y-flūx, n. p. 143The dysentery, a disease in which the discharges from the bowels have a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.Blood'y-flūxed, a. p. 143Afflicted with the bloody-flux.Blóod'y-hānd, n. p. 143A 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. Jacobs.Blōod'y-hŭnt'ing, a. p. 143Hunting for blood. Herod's bloody-hunting slaughtermen. Shak.Blood'y-mīnd'ed, a. p. 143Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; barbarous; inclined to shed blood. This bloody-minded colonel. Dryden.