blood 
blood (bind), r. t. [< blood, .] It. To let 
blood from; bleed by opening a vein. Jului- 
goii. 2f. To stain with blood. 
lli'iidi out their spears afar, 
Anil Uiml their points to prove their |i;utn<Tshi]i in war. 
Ifttft-'/i. I-;ilil. - 
Hence 3. To give u taste of blood ; inure to 
the sight of blood. 
It was mo.,! important too that his troops should he 
blooded. Mtt'-'iiilnit, Hist. Kng., ix. 
Mr Ithr ileerhouud) must he made steady from all 
"riot," and, if possible, should ) tiikrn up in i-ouph-s 
t" tin iti-uth of ;i di'iT nun- nr t \virr mid blooded, so as to 
ni;ik' tiiin nndiTrttaiiil thr niitinv nf the seent. 
Dnijit nf (rr>'(tt llrititin anil Anfrti-n, p. ->.'1\. 
4f. To boat the blood of ; excite ; exasperate. 
Tin- ;iu\ili)iry fmvi's of French and Enjiliwh were nmrli 
hlixnl-'il unr ayainst iinothiT. Bttfon, Hist. Hen. VII. 
5f. To victimize ; extract money from (a per- 
son); ble<>d. [Slang.] 
blood-baptism (blud'bap'tizm), . A term 
applied by the early Christians to the martyr- 
dom of those converts who had not been bap- 
tized. See baptism of Mood, under baptism. 
blood-bespotted (blud'be-spot'ed;, a. Spot- 
ted with blood. 
O btood-benputlfd Neapolitan. Shak., 2 Hen. VI., v. 1. 
blood-bolteredt (blud'bol'terd), a. [< blood + 
boltcretl, pp. of bolter, a rare word: see bolter*.] 
Clotted or clogged with blood. 
The blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me. 
Shak., Macbeth, iv. 1. 
In Warwickshire, when a horse, sheep, or other animal 
perspires much, and any of the hair or wool becomes 
umtteil into tufts with grime and sweat, he is said to be 
boltered ; and whenever the blood issues out and coagu- 
lates, forming the locks into hard clotted bunches, the 
beast is said to be Wood -bull t red. 
II. X. lludmn, note on Macbeth, iv. 1, 123. 
blood-bought (blud'b6t), a. Bought or ob- 
tained at the expense of life or by the shed- 
ding of blood, as in the crucifixion of Christ. 
blood-cell (blud'sel), n. A blood-corpuscle, 
especially an oval nucleated one. See blood. 
In many Nemertina the blood-cell* have a red colour 
(Borlasia). Qeyenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 172. 
blood-consuming (blud'kon-su'ming), a. Life- 
wasting; deathlv: as, " blood-consuming sighs." 
Shak., 2 Hen. V'l., iii. 2. 
blood-corpuscle (blud'k6r"pus-l), n. One of 
the corpuscles of the blood; a blood-cell or 
blood-disk. See blood. 
blood-cups (blud'kups), n. pi. A name given 
to the discomycetous fungus Peziza eoccinea, in 
reference to the bright-red color of its cup-like 
forms, and also to some allied species of 1'eziza. 
blood-disk (blud'disk), n. A red, disk-shaped, 
non-nucleated blood-corpuscle, such as the 
mammalia possess. 
blood-drier (blud'dri'er), n. One who pre- 
pares blood for use in sugar-refining and for 
other purposes. 
blood-drinking (blud'dring'king), a. Drink- 
ing blood. Specifically, in Shakspere (o) Taking in 
or soaked with blood: as, "this detested, dark, blood- 
drinlciny pit," Tit. Anil. li. 8. (b) Bloodthirsty : as. "my 
blood-ilrinkiiuj hate," 1 Hen. VI., 11. 4. (c) I*reyingon the 
blood or life ; wasting : as, " blood-drinking sighs," 2 Hen. 
VI., iii. 2. 
blooded (blud'ed), a. [< blood, n., + -e<P.] 
1. Of pure blood, or good breed; thorough- 
bred; derived from ancestors of good blood; 
having a good pedigree: said of horses and 
other stock. 2. Having blood of a kind noted 
or specified : used in composition : as, warm- 
blooded animals. 3. Figuratively, character- 
ized by a temper or state of mind noted in the 
prefix : used in composition : as, a cold-blooded 
murder ; a hot-blooded answer. 
blood-finch (blud'finch), n. A name of the 
small finch-like birds of the genus Lagenostieta, 
as L. minium, known to bird-dealers as the lit- 
tle Senegal. 
blood-fine (blud'fiu), n. Same as blood-wite. 
blood-flower (blud'flou'er), n. 1. The popular 
name of some of the red-flowered species of 
HtenuinthiiH, a genus of bulbous plants, natives 
of the_ Cape of Good Hope. 2. The name in 
the West Indies of .Isclfpias Cura,<isarica, a spe- 
cies with crimson flowers, common in tropical 
latitudes. 
blood-frozen (Mud'fro'zn), a. Havingthe blood 
I'ro/.en ; chilled, fiveiiaer, F. Q., I. ix. 25. 
blood-guiltiness (blud'gil'ti-nes), . [< blood- 
guilty + -iir.ix.] The guilt or crime of shed- 
ding blood. Ps. li. 14. 
He hath confessed both to Ood and man the Uoodyti-M- 
iness of all this war to lie upon his own head. 
Milton, Eikonoldastos, xU. 
38 
blood-guiltless (blud'^ilflcs), n. Free from 
the K'li't '"' 'Time of shedding Mood ; not guilty 
of murder. If'til/mlr. [Hare.] 
blood-guilty (Mud'gil'ti), a. Guilty of murder; 
responsible for the death of another. 
life. 
Fairfnjc, tr. of i;ilfrry of l;tillogne, xll. 66. 
blood-heat (blud'het), . A degree of heat 
equal to that of human blood, that is, about 
99 F. (though commonly marked on thermom- 
eters as 08). 
blood-horse (Mud'hors), . [< blood, 4 (f), + 
Jiow.] 1. A horse of a breed derived origi- 
nally from a cross with the Arabian horse, 
combining in a remarkable degree lightness, 
strength, swiftness, and endurance. 2. A 
blooded horse. 
blood-hot (blud'hot), a. As warm as blood at 
its natural temperature. 
bloodhound (blud'honnd), n. [< ME. blod- 
honnd, -hand (= D. bloedhond = MLG. bldtlninl 
= Q. /i/ u /li a, ni =_ Dan. Sw. blodhund); < blood 
+ hound.] 1. A variety of dog with long, 
smooth, and jjendulous ears, remarkable for the 
acuteness of its smell, and employed to recover 
game or prey which has escaped, tracing a 
wounded animal by the blood it has spilled 
(whence its name), or by any other effluvium 
or ha lit us left on a trail which it follows by 
scent. There are several varieties of this animal, as 
the English, the Cuban, and the African bloodhound. 
Bloodhounds are often trained not only to the pursuit of 
game, but also of man, as of fugitive criminals; In the 
United States they were formerly employed In hunting 
fugitive slaves. 
2. Figuratively, a man who hunts for blood ; 
a relentless persecutor. 
Wide was the ruin occasioned by the indefatigable zeal 
with which the bloodhounds of the tribunal followed up 
the scent. Pracott, Ferd. and Isa., I. 12. 
bloodily (blud'i-li), adv. In a bloody manner ; 
cruelly ; with a disposition to shed blood. 
O proud death ! 
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell, 
That thou so many princes, at a shoot, 
So bloodily hast struck? slink.. Hamlet, v. '. 
bloodiness (blud'i-nes), n. [< bloody + -ness.] 
1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition 
to shed blood. 
Thiii bloodiness of Saul's Intention. 
Delany, Life of David, I. 8. 
bloodingt (blud'ing), n. A blood-pudding. 
blood-islands (blud'i'landz), n.pl. laembryol., 
the isolated red patches in the vascular area 
of the embryo, in which red blood-corpuscles 
are in process of development. 
blood-leech (blud')ech). n. One of the Hiru- 
dtnea which sucks blood, as the common medi- 
cinal leech. 
bloodless (blud'les), a. [< ME. blodles, < AS. 
blodleds (= D. bloedeloos = G. blutlos = Icel. 
blodhlaus = Sw. Dan. blodlos), < blod, blood, + 
-leds, -less.] 1. Without blood; drained of 
blood ; dead from loss of blood. 
The bloodiest carcass of my Hector. Dryden, .Bneld. 
2. Pale or colorless from defect of blood; pal- 
lid: as, bloodless lips. 3. Free from blood- 
shed; unattended by blood : as, a bloodless vic- 
tory ; "with bloodless stroke," Shak., T. N., ii. 5. 
Carrying the bloodless conquests of fancy over regions 
laid down upon no map. 
'. Among my Books, 1st SIT., p. 243. 
4. Without spirit or energy. 
Thou bloodless, brainless fool. 
Fletcher, Double Marriage. 
6. Cold-hearted : as, bloodless charity or cere- 
mony. 
bloodlessness (blud'les-nes), n. [< bloodless 
+ -ness.] The state or condition of being 
without blood, or of being deficient in blood ; 
anemia. 
If a man were placed on a revolving table, with his feet 
toward the centre, the blood in his liody would be urged 
towards his head ; and this has actually been proposed as 
treatment in bloodlesmess of the brain. 
A. DanieU, 1'rin. of Physics, p. 143. 
bloodlet (blud ' let), v. i. [< ME. blodleten, < 
AS. blodltetan (cf. Icel. MMMttM. pp.), < blml, 
blood, + lietan, let: see let 1 .] To bleed; let 
blood; phlebotomize. [Bare.] 
bloodletter (blud'let'er), n. [< ME. blodletter, 
-leter, < AS. blodlietere, < blodl&tan, bloodlet.] 
One who lets blood, as in diseases ; a phlebot- 
omist. 
bloodletting (blud'let'ing), n. [< ME. blod- 
li iiiii/. -Ii tiin</f, < blodli-tfii. bloodlet. Cf. G. blut- 
IH.WII, bloodletting.] In med., the act of letting 
blood or bleeding by opening a vein, as a reme- 
dial measure in the treatment of disease ; phle- 
botomy. 
bloodshedding 
blood-mare (Mud'inSr). n. A mare of blooded 
breed; ;i female Mood-horse. 
blood-money (blud'mun'i), H. Money paid as 
the price of mood, (a) r,,,,,],, n-;.ii r, urd (,,r 
biinu'inx iil'.'iit tin- li.'iith of HiK.thi-r. ritbi-t 
capital charge against linn ..i 
as will lead t" > mmi-lion. ,/,, r,,,np< n-m n.n f.rnn.-ilv, 
and still in MHIH- Bon-CbrMlu rmintrirs, puiil to tin- m-.u 
..r kin f.,r Hi. killiiiL'. .ta relative, 
blood-pheasant (blud'fez'ant), n. A bird of 
the genus Illniiiiiiu (which see), 
blood-plaque (blud'plak), n. Same as blood- 
biood-plate (blud'plat), n. One of the minute 
discoidal bodies found in large numbers in the 
blood of mammals. They are from one fourth to onr 
half the size of the ml corpuscles, and are many tiint-n MM m 
lilllm-rollH tlnin tin- whitr rorpiuu-lfs. Si-i- Moor/ anil blood- 
<-,l,-[ll/* I'll'. AN'. <:ll]'-ll I,: ,,1,11, ././II-'. 1,1 II,,,,.,,, .!!,.) .... 
puscles or elementary particles of Ziiititiermann. 
blood-poisoning (blud 'poi'zn- ing), n. See 
toxennn. 
blood-pudding (blud 'pud 'ing), n. Same as 
lilitt'f.'-jmttiitHif. 
blood-red (bl'ud'red), a. [< ME. blodrede, < AS. 
h/mlredd (= D. bloedrood = G. blutroth = Icel. 
blodhraudhr = Sw. Dan. blodriid), < blod, blood, 
+ redd, red.] Blood-colored ; red with blood. 
He wrapped his colours round his breast, 
On a Mood-red field of Spain. llemant. 
Blood-red hand, in her., the badge of Ulster. See badgcl 
and baronet. 
The event which was to place the blood-red hand of the 
Newcorae baronetcy on his own brougham. 
Thackeray, Newcomes. 
Blood-red heat, the degree of heat, shown by the color, 
required to reduce the protuberances on coarse iron by the 
hammer, after it has l>een brought to its sha|te, to prepare 
It for filing. Small pieces of iron are often brought to this 
heat preparatory to punching. 
blood-relation (blud're-la'shon), n. One re- 
lated by blood or descent ; a kinsman. 
blood-relationship (blud're-la'shon-ship), n. 
Consanguinity ; kinship. 
The hypothesis of differing gradations of Mood -relation- 
ship. Clatu, Zoology (trans.), p. 157. 
bloodroot (blud'rot), n. 1. The tormentil (Po- 
tentilla TormentilUi) of Europe and northern 
Asia: named from the color of its root, which 
is rich in a red coloring 
matter. It is also rich in 
tannin, and has been used 
as an astringent. 2. The 
common name in the Unit- 
ed States of a papavera- 
ceous herb, Sunguinaria 
Canadfnsis.one of the earli- 
est spring flowers. Its fleshy 
roots yield a dark-red juice, are 
bitter and acrid, and contain a 
peculiar alkaloid, sanguiuarin. 
It is used in medicine as a stiiuu* 
lant, expectorant, and emetic. 
blood-sacrifice (blud'sak'- 
ri-fis), n. A sacrifice made 
with shedding of blood ; 
the sacrifice of a living 
being. 
Cannot my body, nor blood-sacri- 
fce, 
Entreat you to your wonted fur- Bloodroot is 
therance? ct*w). 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., v. 3. 
blood-shakent (blud'sha'kn), a. Having the 
blood set in commotion. B. Jonson. 
bloodshed (blud'shed), n. [Due partly to 
bloodshedding, and partly to the phrase blood 
shed as used in such sentences as "I feared 
there would be bloodshed," "there was much 
blood shed," etc., where shed is the pp. agreeing 
withstood. See blood &uA shed 1 .] 1. The shed- 
ding or spilling of blood ; slaughter ; destruc- 
tion of life : as, " deadly bloodshed," Shak., K. 
John, v. 3. 
In my view of the present aspect of affairs, there need 
be no bloodshed or war. Lincoln, in Raymond, p. 105. 
2f. The shedding of one's own blood; specifi- 
cally, the death of Christ. 3f. A bloodshot 
condition or appearance ; an effusion of blood 
in the eye. 
bloodshedder (blud' shed 'er), n. One who 
sheds blood ; a murderer. [Rare.] 
He that defrandeth the laborer of his hire b a Hood- 
<ln ,1,1, f. Kcclu*. xxxiv. 22. 
bloodshedding (blud 'shed 'ing), n. K ME. 
bloileohedyiige, < blod + shedynge, shedding.] 
1. The shedding of blood; the crime of shed- 
ding blood or taking human life. 
In feight and blodeshcdt/nyes 
Vs used gladly clarionyngea. 
Chaucer, House of 
