blockish 
Destitute of Beda : left only to obscure and blockifth 
Chronicles. Milton, Hist. Eng., iv. 
blockishly (blok'ish-li), adv. In a blockish or 
stupid manner: as, "so blockishly ignorant," 
Hakluyt, Voyages, II. ii. 174. 
blockishness (blok'ish-nes), . Stupidity; 
dullness: as, "incurable blockishness," Whit- 
lock, Manners of English People, p. 140. 
block-like (blok'lik), a. Like a block ; stupid. 
Am I sand-blind ? twice so near the blessing 
I wouUl arrive at, and blocklike never know it. 
Fletcher, Pilgrim, iv. 1. 
block-machine (blok'ma-shen"), n. A machine, 
or an assemblage of machines, for making the 
shells and sheaves of the wood blocks used for 
ship-tackle. 
block-plane (blok'plan), n. A plane the iron 
of which is set very obliquely to the direction 
in which it is moved, so that it can plane across 
the grain of the wood. 
block-printed (blok'prin'ted), a. Printed from 
blocks. See block-printing. 
block-printing (blok' printing), n. 1. The 
act, process, or art of printing from blocks of 
wood on which the letters or characters have 
been carved in relief; specifically, the Chinese 
method of printing books, and that employed 
to some extent in Europe before the invention 
of movable types. See block-book, 2. The pro- 
cess of impressing patterns on textile fabrics, 
especially calicos, by means of wooden blocks 
having the pattern cut in relief on their sur- 
face and charged with color. A similar method 
is frequently used in printing paper-hangings. 
block-ship (blok'ship), n. 1. A ship used to 
block the entrance to a harbor or port. 2. An 
old man-of-war, unfit for operations in the open 
sea, used as a store-ship or receiving-vessel, 
etc. ; a hulk. 
block-tin (blok'tin), n. [< block* + tin; = D. 
bloktin = Sw. bloclctenn.] Metallic tin after 
being refined and cast in molds. 
block-trail (blok'tral), n. The solid trail of a 
gun-carriage. The stock is made either of a single 
piece of timber or of two longitudinal pieces properly 
secured together. [Eng.] 
block-truck (blok'truk), n. A three- or four- 
wheeled hand-truck for moving heavy boxes, 
without handles or shafts. 
blocky (blok'i), a. [< 
block' + -#!.] Inphotog., 
haying the appearance of 
being printed in blocks, 
from an unequal distribu- 
tion of light and shade. 
blodbendet, . In phlebotomy, a tape or narrow 
bandage, usually of silk, used to bind the arm 
before or after blood-letting. 
blodite (bled'It), n. [< Blode (name of a chem- 
ist) + -its 2 ."] A hydrous sulphate of magne- 
sium and sodium, found in the salt-mines of 
Ischl in Upper Austria, and elsewhere. 
bloke (blok), n. [Also spelled bloak; a word 
of obscure origin.] Man; fellow: a term of 
disrespect or contumely. [Slang.] 
blomary, n. Same as bloomery. 
blond (blond), a. and n. [= D. G. Dan. blond 
(MHG. blunt), < OF. F. blond, fern, blonde, light, 
fair, = Pr. blon = Sp. Hondo = It. biondo, < 
ML. bloudiis, blundus (glossed flavus), yellow. 
Origin unknown. The supposed connection 
with AS. blonden-feax, gray-haired, lit. having 
mixed hair, < blonden, blanden, pp. of blandan, 
mix (see blend 1 ), + feax, hair, is hardly prob- 
able.] I. a. Of a light golden-brown or golden 
color: applied to hair; hence, light-colored; 
fair : applied to complexion, and by extension 
to persons having light hair or a fair complex- 
ion: as, "Godfrey's blond countenance," George 
Eliot, Silas Marner, iii. =syn. fair, etc. See white. 
II. n. 1. A person with blond hair and fair 
complexion. 2. Blond-lace (which see). 
Lydia. Heigh-ho ! What are those books by the glass ' 
Lucy. The great one is only " The Whole Duty of Man," 
where I press a few blonds, ma'am. 
Sheridan, The Rivals, i. 2. 
blonde (blond), a. and . The feminine of blond. 
She was a fine and somewhat full-blown blonde. 
Byron, Don Juan, xiv. 42. 
blonde-cendree (blond- son -dra'), [F., < 
blond, fern, blonde, blond, + cendre, fern, cen- 
dree, ash-colored, ashy, < cendre, < L. cinis 
(ciner-), ashes.] Ash-colored: applied to hair 
which is light-brown in color, and without red 
or yellow tints. 
blond-lace (blond'las), n. Lace made of silk, 
originally of unbleached silk (from the yellow- 
ish color of which the name arose), now of 
Human Blood-corpus- 
cles, magnified 325 diam- 
eters. 
692 
white, black, or colored silk, manufactured at 
Chantilly and other places in France. The 
name has also been given to a kind of thread- 
lace. 
blond-metal (blond' met "al), 11. A peculiar 
variety of clay-ironstone o'f the coal-measures 
occurring near Wednesbury in Staffordshire, 
England. 
blondness (bloncl'nes), re. [< blond + -ness.] 
The state of being blond; fairness of com- 
plexion. 
With this infantine blondness showing so much ready, 
self-possessed grace. George KIM, Middlemarch, xvi. 
blonkett, and n. A variant of blunket. 
blood (biud), n. [= Sc. bluid, blude; < ME. 
blood, blond, blud, Hod, < AS. blod (= OS. Mod 
= OFries. blod = D. bloed = MLG. blot, LG. 
blood = OHG. bluot, MHG. bluot, G. Nut = Icel. 
blodh = Sw. blod = Dan. blod = Goth, bloth), 
blood ; perhaps, with formative -d (-th), from 
the root of blowan, E. blow z , bloom, flourish, 
with reference to either life or color.] 1. The 
fluid which circulates in the arteries and veins. 
From it the solid tissues take their food and oxygen, and 
into it they discharge their waste products. The blood 
is red in vertebrates, except amphioxus, and colorless, 
red, bluish, greenish, or milky in other animals. In pass- 
ing through the lungs (see emulation) it is oxygenated 
and gives up carbon dioxid ; then, after passing through 
the heart, it is carried as arterial blood by the arteries 
to the tissues ; from the tissues it is returned to the heart 
through the veins, deprived of its nutrient properties, as 
venous blSod. The venous blood of the Craniota is dark- 
red, the arterial bright-scarlet. The specific gravity of 
human blood in health is about 1.055. The blood con- 
sists of a fluid pale-yellow plasma and semi-solid corpus- 
cles ; the latter constitute between 
one third and one half of it ; they 
are of two kinds, red and white. 
In a cubic millimeter of healthy 
human blood there are about 
6,000,000 corpuscles, the red being 
to the white on the average about 
as 350 to 1. The red corpuscles are 
flat disks, non-nucleated and al- 
most always round in mammals, 
and nucleated and almost always 
oval in other Craniota. Their di- 
ameter averages in man about 7.5 
micromillimeters (,An inch), while in Amphiuma tridac- 
tylum the longer diameter is 67.2 micromillimeters (,J 3 
inch). Their color is due to hemoglobin, which constitutes 
about 90 per cent, of their dried substance. The white 
corpuscles are nucleated, slightly larger than the red in 
man, and exhibit active amoeboid movements. Animal 
blood is used in clarifying sugar, in making animal char- 
coal, as a manure, and in many other ways. 
2. Blood that is shed; bloodshed; slaughter; 
murder. 
I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of 
Jehu. Hos. i. 4. 
So wills the fierce avenging sprite, 
Till blood for blood atones. 
Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram. 
3. The responsibility or guilt of shedding the 
blood of others. 
His blood be on us, and on our children. Mat. xxvii. 25. 
4. From being popularly regarded as the fluid 
in which more especially the life resides, as 
the seat of feelings, passions, hereditary quali- 
ties, etc., the word blood has come to be used 
typically, or with certain associated ideas, in a 
number of different ways. Thus (at) The vital 
principle ; life. 
Romeo slew him, he slew Mercutio ; 
Who now the price of his dear blood doth owe ? 
Shak., R. and J., ill 1. 
(6) Fleshly nature ; the camal part of man, as opposed to 
the spiritual nature or divine life. 
All frailties that besiege all kinds of Wood. 
Shak., Sonnets, cix 
For beauty is a witch, 
Against whose charms faith melteth into Wood. 
Shak., Much Ado, ii. 1. 
(c) Temper of mind; natural disposition; high spirit; 
mettle ; passion ; anger : in this sense often accompanied 
with cold or warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to 
commit an act in cold blood is to do it deliberately and 
without sudden passion. Hot or warm blood denotes a 
temper inflamed or irritated ; to warm or heat the blood 
is to excite the passions. 
Our bloods 
No more obey the heavens. 
Shak., Cymbeline, i. 1. 
Strange, unusual blood, 
When man's worst sin is, he does too much good ' 
Shak., T. of A., iv. 2. 
Blest gods, 
Make all their actions answer to their bloods. 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, iii. 1. 
The words "coercion" and "invasion" are much used 
in these days, and often with some temper and hot Mood. 
Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 80. 
(d) A man of flre or spirit ; a hot spark ; a rake. 
The gallants of these times pretty much resembled the 
bloods of ours. Goldsmith, Reverie at Boar's Head Tavern. 
(e) Persons of any specified race, nationality, or family 
considered collectively. 
blood 
Indian blood, thus far in the history of this country, has 
tended decidedly toward extinction. 
Quoted in Pop. Sci. Mo., XXVI. 233. 
(/) Birth ; extraction ; parentage ; breed ; absolutely, high 
birth ; good extraction : often qualified by such adjectives 
as yvod, bane, etc. 
A prince of blood, a son of Priam. 
Shak., T. and C., iii. 3. 
Good blood was indeed held in high respect, but be- 
tween good blood and the privileges of peerage there was 
no necessary connection. Pedigrees as long, and scutch- 
eons as old, were to be found out of the House of Lords 
as in it. Macaulay. 
[In this sense the word is often used of the pedigree of 
horses. 
She's a fine mare, and a thing of shape and blood. 
Caiman, Jealous Wife, ii. 1.] 
(17) One who inherits the blood of another; child; col- 
lectively, offspring ; progeny. 
The world will say He is not Talbot's blood 
That basely fled, when noble Talbot stood. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., iv. 5. 
(A) Relationship by descent from a common ancestor ; 
consanguinity ; lineage ; kindred ; family. 
I hope I do not break the fifth commandment, if I con- 
ceive I may love my friend before the nearest of my 
blood. Sir T. JBroil-ne, Religio Medici, ii. 5. 
And politicians have ever, with great reason, considered 
the ties of blood as feeble and precarious links of political 
connection. A. Hamilton, Federalist, No. 24. 
Nearer in Mood to the Spanish throne than his grand- 
father the Emperor. ilacaulay, Hist. Eng., xxiii. 
It is a maxim that none shall claim as heir who is not 
of the Mood (i. e., kindred) of the purchaser. 
Wharton, Law Lex. 
5. That which resembles blood: the juice of 
anything, especially if red : as, " the blood of 
grapes." Gen. xlix. 11. 6f. Adisease in cattle. 
7. A commercial name for red coral A bit 
of blood, an animal of good pedigree ; a thoroughbred. 
Bad blood. 111 blood, disagreement ; disunion ; strife ; 
angry feeling ; unfriendliness. 
Partly to make bad blood, . . . they instituted a method 
of petitioning the king that the parliament might meet 
and sit. Roger North, Life of Lord Guilford, ii. 25. 
Hot words passed on both sides, and ill blood was plen- 
tifully bred. Swift, Battle of Books. 
Baptism of blood. See baptism. Blood on bread. 
See bloodj/ bread, under bloody. Blue blood, aristocratic 
blood ; blood flowing in the veins of old and aristocratic 
families. The phrase is said to have originated in Spain, 
from a notion that the blood of some of the oldest and 
proudest families, having never been tainted by intermix- 
ture with that of the Moorish invaders, was of a bluer 
tint than that of the common people. 
The very anxiety shown by the modern Spaniard to 
prove that only the sangre azul, blue-blood, flows through 
his veins, uncontaminated by any Moorish or Jewish 
taint, may be thought to afford some evidence of the in- 
timacy which once existed between his forefathers and 
the tribes of eastern origin. Prescott. 
Corruption of blood. See attainder, 1. Dissolution 
of the bloodf. See dissolution. Doctrine of blood- 
atonement. See atonement. flesh and blood, (a) The 
body as the seat of human passions and desires ; human 
nature : as, it was too much lor flesh and blood to endure. 
(4) Offspring ; progeny ; child or children : as, one's own 
fletih and blood should be preferred to strangers. Flower 
of blood, froth of blood, names used in commerce to 
denote coral of certain degrees of hardness and brilliancy 
of color. For the blood of himt, for the life of him. 
Fresh blood, blood of another strain ; hence, new mem- 
bers, or new elements of vigor or strength ; persons of new 
or fresh ideas and ways of thinking : as, fresh blood is 
needed in the management of the party. Half blood, 
relationship through one parent only, as that of half 
brothers or sisters, or of persons of the same race on one 
side and different races on the other. In blood, in a 
state of perfect health and vigor : properly a term of the 
chase. 
But when they shall see, sir, his crest up again and the 
man in blood, they will out of their burrows like conies 
after rain. Shak., Cor., iv. 5. 
In cold blood, in hot blood. See 4 (c), above. Man 
Of blood, a murderous or bloodthirsty man ; a murderer. 
The secret'st man of blood. Shak., Macbeth, iii. 4. 
Out Of blood, in bad condition ; without vigor ; lifeless : 
said of hounds. The blood, royal family or lineage : as 
princes of the blood. To be let blood t. (n) To have a 
vein opened for the withdrawal of blood as a remedy in 
sickness. 
You look as you were not well, sir, and would be 
Shortly let blood. Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, v. 2. 
(6) To be put to death. 
Commend me to Lord William : tell him . . 
His ancient knot of dangerous adversaries 
To-morrow are, let blood at Pomfret-castle 
Shak., Rich. III., iii. 1. 
To let blood, in snrg., to draw blood from (any one) by 
opening a vein. 
He is feverish, and hath sent for Mr. Pearce to let him 
Pepyt, Diary, I. 374. 
To restore to or in blood, to free from the conse- 
quences of attainder ; readmit to the privileges of one's 
birth and rank. To run in the blood, to be hereditary 
in the family, nationality, or race. To the bloodt, to 
the quick ; through the skin. 
I could not get on my boots, which vexed me to the 
blood. Pepys, Diary, I. 332. 
Whole blood, relationship through both father and 
mother. See half blood, above. Young blood, young 
people generally ; the younger members of a community, 
party, etc. 
