Blood /(blŭd)/
Blood
n.
- 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.
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Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
To share the blood of Saxon royalty.
A friend of our own blood.
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Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam.
I am a gentleman of blood and breeding.
- Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. (Stock Breeding)
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The fleshy nature of man.
Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood.
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The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones.
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A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries.
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Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
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A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
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The juice of anything, especially if red.
He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
Phrases & Compounds
- Half blood
- relationship through only one parent.
- Whole blood
- relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood.
- Blood baptism
- 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
- 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
- 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 98<frac:1_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
- 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 blood relation, esp. a child.
- In blood
- in a state of perfect health and vigor.
- 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.
Blood
v. t.
imp. & p. p. Blooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooding
- To bleed. [Obs.]
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To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic]
Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points.
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To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
It was most important too that his troops should be blooded.
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To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.]
The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another.