bloodshedding 
These hands are free from guiltless bloodshfil<liii?/. 
Male., 2 Hen. VI.,' iv. 7. 
2f. The act of shedding one's own blood. 
bloodshot (blud'shot), a. Bed and inflamed 
by a turgid state of the blood-vessels, as in cer- 
tain weak or excited states : said of the eye. 
Retiring late, at early hour to rise, 
With shrunken features, and with bloodshot eyes. 
Crabbe, Works, V. 21. 
bloodshottent (blud' shot *n), a. Bloodshot. 
Johnson. 
bloodshottennesst (blud'shot"n-nes), n. The 
state of being bloodshot. 
The enemies of the church's peace could vex the eyes 
of the poor people ... to UoodMOtteniMM and fury. 
/. Walton, Life of Hooker. 
blood-sized (blud'sizd), a. Sized or stiffened 
with blood: as, "the blood-sized field," Fletcher 
(and another), Two Noble Kinsmen. [Bare.] 
blood-spavin (blud'spav"in), n. A dilatation 
of the vein that runs along the inside of the 
hock of a horse, forming a soft swelling, 
blood-spiller (blud'spil"er), n. One who spills 
or sheds blood ; a bloodshedder. Quarterly Rev. 
[Bare.] 
blood-spilling (blud'spil"ing), n. [< ME. 
blodcspy Iling ; < blood + spilling.] The act of 
spilling or shedding blood; bloodshedding. 
TBare.] 
blood-Stain (blud'stan), n. A spot or trace of 
blood. 
bloodstain (blud'stan), v. t. [< blood-stain, n. ; 
but due rather to blood-stained.] To stain with 
blood. Byron. [Bare.] 
blood-Stained (blud'stand), a. Stained with 
blood; guilty of bloodshed or slaughter. 
The beast of prey, blood-stain' 'it, deserves to bleed. 
Thomson, Spring, 1. 358. 
blood-stanch (blud'stanch), n. One of the 
various names given to the common fleabane, 
Erigeron Canadensis, from its use in arresting 
hemorrhages. 
blood-stick (blud'stik), n. A stick weighted at 
one end with lead, used for striking the fleam, 
or veterinary lancet, into a vein. 
bloodstone (blud'ston), n. [< blood + stone; 
= D. blocdsteen = G. blutstein = Dan. Sw. blod- 
sten.] 1. A variety of hematite, having a finely 
fibrous structure and a reniform surface. The 
color varies from dark steel-gray to blood-red. It was 
extensively employed in ancient times, many of the Baby- 
lonian and Egyptian intaglios being in this material ; now 
it is much less used, except for signet-rings, and as a polish 
for other stones and metals. 
2. A variety of quartz having a greenish base, 
with small spots of red jasper, looking like 
drops of blood, scattered through it. This kind 
of bloodstone is also called heliotrope. 
blood-stranget, [A compound having no ob- 
vious meaning, as to its second element, in E., 
and hence (being appar. only a book-name) 
prob. an adaptation of some foreign name, per- 
haps of an unrecorded G. *blutstrenge, < blut, 
= E. blood, + strenge, tightness, strictness, < 
streng, tight, strict, strong, = E. strong: see 
strong and string. The name would have refer- 
ence to the (supposed) styptic qualities of the 
plant. See N. E. D.] The mousetail, Myosurus 
minimus. 
blood-Stroke (blud'strok), n. Apoplexy from 
encephalic hemorrhage or congestion. 
bloodsucker (blud'suk'er), n. [< ME. blood- 
soukere = D. bloodzuiger = MHG. bluotsuger = 
Dan. blodsuger = Sw. blodsugare; < blood + 
sucker.] 1. Any animal that sucks blood, as a 
leech, a mosquito, etc. 2. A name of a com- 
mon agamoid East Indian lizard, Calotes versi- 
color, perhaps so called from the reddish hue 
of the throat, as it does not suck blood. 
3. A cruel or bloodthirsty man; hence, one 
who sucks the blood of or preys upon another; 
an extortioner ; a sponger. 
God keep the prince from all the pack of you ! 
A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers. 
Shale., Rich. III., iii. 3. 
Thou art a villain and a forger, 
A blood-sucker of innocence, an hypocrite. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Malta, i. 3. 
blood-sucking (blud'suk"ing), a. Sucking or 
drawing blood; preying on the blood: &s,"blood- 
sucking sighs," Shak., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 4. 
blood-swelling (blud'swel"ing), n. Same as 
liematocele. 
blood-swollen (blud'swoln), a. Swelled or suf- 
fused with blood: as, "their blood-swoln eyes," 
May, tr. of Lucan's Pharsalia, vi. 
bloodthirstiness (blud'thers"ti-nes), . [< 
bloodthirsty + -ness.] Thirst for blood ; a pro- 
pensity for shedding blood ; a desire to slay. 
594 
He governed with a cruelty and bloodthirstiness that 
have obtained for him the name of the northern Nero. 
Brougham. 
bloodthirsty (blud ' there ' ti), a. [< blood + 
thirsty;=D. bloeddorstig = G. blutdiirstig = "Da,Ti. 
Sw. blodtorstig.] Eager to shed blood; mur- 
derous: as, "his bloodthirstie blade," Spenser, 
F. Q., I. viii. 16; " bloodthirsty lord," Shak., 1 
Hen. VI., ii. 3. 
Even the most bloodthirsty monsters may have a sincere 
partiality for their own belongings, paramour or friend or 
child. //. A". Oxen/taut, Short Studies, p. 60. 
blood-tree (blud'tre), n. In the West Indies, a 
native arborescent species of Croton, C. gossypi- 
folius, which yields a kind of kino sometimes 
called dragon's-blood. 
blood-vascular (blud'vas'ku-lar), a. Vascular 
with blood-vessels ; permeated with blood-ves- 
sels ; pertaining to the circulation of blood. 
Blood-vascular gland. See gland. Blood- vascular 
system, the system of blood-vessels ; the circulatory sys- 
tem of vessels containing blood: distinguished from water- 
vascular system. 
blood-vessel (blud'ves"el), n. Any vessel in 
which blood circulates in an animal body, 
whether artery, vein, or capillary. 
blood-warm (blud' warm), a. Warm as blood; 
lukewarm. 
blood-warmed (blud'warmd), a. Having one's 
blood warmed by excitement, as by a bloody 
contest. [Bare.] 
He meets the blood-warmed soldier in his mail. 
J. Baillu. 
blood-witet (blud'wit), . [< ME. blodwite, < 
AS. blodwite, < blod, blood, + mite, fine, pen- 
alty: see blood and wife. Used only histori- 
cally; sometimes improp. bloodwit.] In anc. 
law : (a) A. wite, fine, or amercement paid as a 
composition for the shedding of blood. 
The bloodwite, or compensation in money for personal 
wrong, was the first effort of the tribe as a whole to regu- 
late private revenge. 
Quoted in //. 0. Forbes's Eastern Archipelago, p. 474. 
(6) The right to such compensation, (c) A riot 
in which blood was shed. 
bloodwood (blud'wud), n. 1. A name given to 
logwood, from its color. 2. In Jamaica, a tree 
of the natural order Ternstroemiaccte, Laplacea 
hwmatoxylon, with dark-red wood. 3. In Aus- 
tralia, a name of species of Eucalyptus, espe- 
cially E. corymbosa, yielding the Australian 
kino. 4. A large timber-tree of India, Lager- 
strannia Flos-Kegince, natural order Lythracece, 
with soft but durable blood-red wood, which is 
largely used for boat-building and ship-knees. 
Also called jarool-tree. 
blood-worm (blud'werm), n. The active blood- 
colored or scarlet larva of the species of Chi- 
ronomus, found in the rain-water of tanks and 
cisterns. 
bloodwort (blud'wert), n. [< ME. blodwurt, 
blodwerte (applied to several plants), < AS. 
"blod-wyrt (= Sw. blodort), < blod, blood, + 
wyrt, wort.] A name applied to various plants, 
as (a) the bloody dock, Rumex sanguineus, a spe- 
cies of dock with the stem and veins of the 
leaves of a blood-red color; (6) the dwarf elder, 
Sambucus Ebulus; (c) in the United States, the 
Hieracium venosmn, the leaves of which are 
veined with red. 
bloody (blud'i), a. [Early mod. E. also bloudy ; 
< ME. blody, bhidy, blodi, etc., < AS. blodig (= 
OS. blodag = OFries. blodich = D. bloedig = 
OHG. bluotac, MHG. bluotec, G. blutig = Icel. 
blodhigr = Sw. Dan. blodig), < blod, blood : see 
blood and -y 1 .] 1. Of, of the nature of, or per- 
taining to blood; containing or composed of 
blood: as, a bloody stream; "bloody drops," 
Shak., As you Like it, iii. 5. 2f. Existing in 
the blood. 
Lust is but a bloody fire. Shak. , M. W. of W. , v. 5 (song). 
3. Stained with blood; exhibiting signs or 
traces of blood: as, a bloody knife. 4. Of the 
color of blood ; blood-red. 
Unwind your bloody flag. Shak., Hen. V., i. 2. 
5. Cruel; murderous; given to the shedding of 
blood, or having a cruel, savage disposition. 
The boar, that bloody beast. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 899. 
He was a bloudye man, and regarded not the life of her 
subjectes noe more then dogges. Spenser, State of Ireland. 
6. Attended with or committing bloodshed; 
marked by cruelty : as, a bloody battle. 
This Ireton was a stout rebell, and had ben very bloudy 
to the King's party. Evelyn, Diary, March 6, 1852. 
7. Concerned with or portending bloodshed; 
sanguinary. 
No magtcke arts hereof had any might, 
Nor bloody wordes of bold Enchaunters call. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. vii. 36. 
bloom 
8. In low language : (a) Excessive ; atrocious ; 
heinous : as, he's a bloody fool, or a bloody ras- 
cal, (b) Used as an intensive expletive, espe- 
cially in negative expressions : as, there wasn't 
a bloody soul there Bloody bill. Same as .force- 
bill (which sec, under .fuw). Bloody bread, blood on 
bread, blOOd Of the host, an appearance resembling 
drops of blood which sometimes occurs upon bread and 
other starchy substances. The red pigment is a product 
of either of two microscopic fungi growing in the sub- 
stance discolored. One of them is Micrococcm prodigiosun, 
belonging to the bacteria, and the other Saccharomyces 
fflutiiius, one of the yeast fungi. Bloody Chasm. See 
chasm. Bloody flux, dysentery. Bloody hand, (a) A 
hand stained witll the blood of a deer, which, in the old 
forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's 
trespass against venison in the forest, (b) Same as badge 
of Ulster. Seeforttfyrel. Bloody murrain. Same as symp- 
tomatic anthrax (which see, under anthrax). Bloody 
Shirt. See shirt. Bloody statute, a name by which the 
English statute of 1539, the Act of the Six Articles, is 
sometimes referred to. See the Six Articles, under article. 
= Syn. 6. See sanguinary. 
bloody (blud'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. bloodied, 
ppr. bloodying. [< bloody, a. Cf. AS. geblode- 
gian (= OHG. bluotagon, bluotegon), < blodig, 
bloody.] To stain with blood. 
With my own wounds I'll blood;/ my own sword. 
Bean, and Fl., Philaster, iv. 4. 
bloody (blud'i), adv. [< bloody, a.] Very; ex- 
ceedingly; desperately: as, "bloody drunk," 
Dryden, Prol. to Southerne's Disappointment. 
[Vulgar.] 
"Are you not sick, my dear?" . . . "Bloody sick." 
Svri/t, Poisoning of Cnrll. 
bloody-bones (blud'i-bonz), . A nursery 
name of a bugbear. 
Why does the Nurse tell the Child of Raw-head and 
Bloudy-bones, to keep it in awe ? Selden, Table-Talk, p. 99. 
Are you Milan's general, that 
Great bugbear Bloody-bones, at whose very name 
All women, from the lady to the laundress, 
Shake like a cold fit? 
Beau, and Fl., Woman-Hater, iii. 1. 
bloody-eyed (blud'i-id), a. Having bloody or 
cruel eyes. Lord Brooke. 
bloody-faced (blud'i-fast), a. Having a bloody 
face or appearance. Shak. 
bloody-fluxed (blud'i-flukst), a. Having a 
bloody flux; afflicted with dysentery. 
The bloody-fluxed woman fingered but the hem of his 
garment. Bp. Hall, Remains, p. 90. 
bloody-man's-finger (blud'i-manz-fing'ger), n. 
The cuckoo-pint, Arum macitlatum : so called 
from its lurid purple spadix or flower-spike. 
See cut under Arum. 
bloody-minded (blud'i-min"ded), a. Having 
a cruel, ferocious disposition ; barbarous ; in- 
clined to shed blood. 
She is bloody-minded, 
And turns the justice of the law to rigour. 
Beau. and. Fl., Laws of Candy, v. 1. 
bloody-nose beetle. See beetle^. 
bloody-red (blud'i-red), a. Bed with or as with 
blood; blood-red. 
Housing and saddle bloody-red, 
Lord Marmion's steed rush'd by. 
Scott, Marmion, vi. 27. 
bloody-sceptered, bloody-sceptred (blud ' i- 
sep'terd), a. Having a scepter obtained by 
blood or slaughter. [Bare.] 
An untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptr'd. Shak. , Macbeth, iv. 3. 
bloody-warrior (blud'i-wor"i-er), n. A dark- 
colored variety of the wall-flower, Cheiranthus 
Cheiri. 
bloom 1 (blom), n. [= Sc. bltime; early mod. E. 
bloome, blome, bloume; < ME. blom, blome, < AS. 
*bloma, a blossom (not found in this sense, for 
which reg. blast ma, blostm (see blossom), but 
prob. the original of which bloniti, a mass of 
iron ( > E. bloom 2 ), is a deflected sense ; the ME. 
maybe in part from the Scand.) (=OS. blomo = 
late OFries. blcem, blam, NFries. blomme = MD. 
bloeme, D. bloem, f., = MLG. blome = OHG. 
bluomo, m., bluoma, f., MHG. bluome, m.,f., G. 
blnme, f ., = Icel. blomi, m., blom, neut., = Norw. 
blom = Sw. blomma, f ., = Dan. blomme = Goth. 
bloma, m., a flower), with formative -m (orig. 
'-man), < bloican, etc., E. blow 2 , bloom, whence 
also bled, bleed, > ME. blede (= MLG. blot = OHG. 
MHG. bluot, MHG. pi. bliiete, G. bliite),_ a flower, 
blossom, fruit, and AS. blostma, blostm, > E- 
blossom, and perhaps AS. blod, E. blood; also 
from the same ult. root, L. flos (Jlor-), > ult. E. 
flower, flour : see these words.] 1. A blossom ; 
the flower of a plant, especially of an orna- 
mental plant ; an expanded bud. 
While opening blooms diffuse their sweets around. 
Pope, Spring, 1. 100. 
Now sleeps the humming-bird, that, in the sun, 
Wandered from bloom to bloom. Bryant, May Evening. 
