sang sue 
guisuga, a leech, < 1.. ain/i/nixiiga (NL. tiangu!- 
sitga), a blood-sucker, leech, < L. sanguis, blood, 
+ sugere, suck: see succulent and stick.] A 
leech. Also called stiugnitsugi'. 
The poisonous sangsue of Charlottesville may always be 
distinguished from the medicinal leech by its blackness, 
and especially by its writhing or vermicular motions, which 
very nearly resemble those of a snake. 
Poe, A Tale of the Ragged Mountains. 
sanguicolous (sang-gwik'o-lus), a. [< L. san- 
yiiin, blood (see sung 3 , sanguine), + colere, inhab- 
it.] Living in the blood, as a parasite ; hema- 
tobie. Also sanguinieoloux. 
sanguiferous (sang-gwif' e-rus), a. [< NL. *JM- 
j/iiifcr, blood-conveying, ? L. Bangui*, blood, + 
frrre = E. bear 1 .'] Receiving and conveying 
blood ; circulatory, as a blood-vessel. The san- 
guiferous system of the higher animals consists 
of the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins. 
Also sanguiniferoiis. 
This fifth conjugation of nerves is branched . . . to the 
muscles of the face, particularly the cheeks, whose xtiti- 
yuiferuus vessels twist about. 
Derham, Physico-Theology, v. 8. 
sanguification (sang"g\vi-fi-ka'shon), n. [= 
F. sanguification = Sp. sanguification = Pg. san- 
guificacSo = It. sanguificafione, < NL. *sangui- 
ficatio(n-), < "sanguificare, produce blood: see 
sanguify.] The production of blood. 
The lungs are the first and chief instrument of sanguifi- 
cation. A rbuthnot, AlimenU, ii. 2. 
5334 
sanguinolent 
much bloodshed or carnage: as, a sangiiiunn/ 
encounter. 
Examples of fine sanguines are so extremely frequent in 
every large collection of drawings by the old masters that 
it is unnecessary to particularise them. 
We may not. . propagate religion by wars, or by son- P . O . Uamerton, Graphic Arts p 163 
gmnarij persecutions to force consciences. . . . 
Bacon, Unity in Religion. sangUinet (sang gwin), r. 1. ; pret. and pp. SOD- 
AS we find the ruffling Winds to be commonly in Ceme- .'/';'', ppr. sanguining. J< ML. sanguiiiare, tr., 
teries and about Churches, so the eagerest and most san- 
guinary Wars are about Religion. Huii'dl, Letters, iv. 29. 
On this day one of the most sanguinary conflicts of the 
war, the second battle of Bull Run. was fought. 
The Century, XXXVII. 429. 
3. Bloodthirsty ; eager to shed blood ; charac- 
terized by cruelty. 
If you make the criminal code sanguinary, juries will 
not convict. Emerson, Compensation. 
The sanguinary and ferocious conversation of his cap- 
torthe list of slain that his arm had sent to their long 
account . . . made him tremble. 
G. P. K. Jama, Arrah Neil, xliv. 
= Syn. 2 and 3. Sanguinary, Bloody. Sanguinary refers 
to the shedding of blood, or pleasure in the shedding of 
blood ;' bloody refers to the presence or, by extension, the 
sanguifier (sang'gwi-fi-er), n. 
blood. 
A producer of 
stain with blood, bleed, L. tangtttnore, intr., be 
bloody, bleed, < sanguis (aung'uin-), blood: see 
sangS, sanguine, a.] 1. To stain with blood; 
ensanguine. 
Ill sanguined with an Innocent's blood. 
Fanshawe, tr. of Guarini's Pastor Fido, p. 149. (Latham.) 
2. To stain or varnish with a color like that of 
blood; redden. 
What rapier? gilt, silvered, or sanguined? 
Minsheu, Spanish Diet. (1599), p. 3. (Latham.) 
Pisa. He looks 
Of a more rusty, swarth complexion 
Than an old arming-doublet. 
Lod. I would send 
His face to the cutler's, then, and have it tanguin'd. 
Beau, and Ft., Captain, ii. 2. 
h^KhanTSAIlfe or battle"*""' SangUinelCSS (sang'gwin-les), . [< sanguine + 
-less.] Destitute of blood; pale. [Bare.] Imp. 
Diet. 
sanguinely (sang'gwin-li), adv. In a sanguine 
manner; with confidence of success ; hopefully. 
Too tanguinely hoping to shine on In their meridian. 
Chesterfield. 
sanguineness (sang'gwin-nes), n. Sanguine 
character or condition, (a) Redness ; ruddiness : as, 
sanguineness of complexion, (b) Fullness of blood ; pleth- 
ora: as, sanguineness of habit, (c) Ardor; heat of tern- 
per; confidence; hopefulness. 
Bitters, like choler, are the best sanguifiers. and also the 
best febrifuges. Sir J. Flayer, On the Humours. 
sanguifluoust (sang-gwif'lij-us), a. [< L. san- 
guis, blood, + fluere, flow.] Flowing or run- 
ning with blood. Bailey. 
sanguify (sang'gwi-fi), ?.; pret. and pp. san- 
guified, ppr. sanguifying. [< NL. 'sanguificare, 
produce blood, < L. sanguis, blood, 4- facere, 
make, do : see -fy.] I.t intrans. To make blood. 
At the same time I think, I deliberate, I purpose, I com- 
mand ; in inf eriour faculties, I walk, I see, I hear, I di- 
gest, I sanyuijie, I carnifle. 
Sir M. Bale, Orig. of Mankind, p. 31. 
II. trans. To convert into blood; make blood 
of. [Bare.] 
It is but the first digestion, as it were, that is there [in 
the understanding] performed, as of meat in the stomach, 
but in the will they are more perfectly concocted, as the 
chyle is sanguified in the liver, spleen, and veins. 
Baxter, Saints' Rest, iii. 11. 
sanguigenoust (sang-gwij'e-nus), a. [< L. san- 
guis, blood. + -genus, producing: see -genous.] 
Producing blood : as, sanguigenous food. Greg- 
ory. 
sanguint (sang'gwin), a. An obsolete form of 
sanguine. 
Sanguinaria 1 (saug-gwi-na'ri-a), n. [NL. (Dil- 
lemus, 1732), so called in allusion to the blood- 
like juice, < L. sanguinaria, a plant (Polygonum 
aviculare) so called because reputed to stanch 
blood, fern. (sc. herba) of sanguinarius, pertain- 
ing to blood: see sanguinary.] In hot., a ge- 
nus of polypetalous plants of the order Papa- 
veracese, the poppy family, and tribe Eupapa- 
verefe. It is characterized by one-flowered scapes from 
a creeping rootstock, an oblong and stalked capsule with 
two valves which open to its base, and a flower with two 
sepals, eight to twelve petals in two or three rows, numer- 
ous stamens, and a short style club-shaped at the summit. 
The only species, S. Canadensis, the bloodroot, is common 
throughout eastern North America. Its conspicuous pure- 
white flower appears before the leaf ; the latter is devel- 
oped single from a terminal bud, is roundish or reniform 
with deep palmate lobes, of a pale bluish-green color, 
and enlarges throughout the season until often 6 inches 
across. Also called red puceoon, and, from its use by the 
Indians for staining, red Indian paint. See bloodroot, 2. 
Sanguinaria 2 (sang-gwi-na'ri-a), n.pl. [NL., 
neut. pi. of L. sanguinarius, pertaining to blood: 
see sanguinary.] In zoiil. , in Illiger's classifica- 
tion (1811), a family of his Falculata, or mam- 
mals with claws, corresponding to the modern 
Pel idee, Canidae, Hysenidee, and" part of the Vi- 
verridss. 
sanguinarily (sang'gwi-na-ri-H), adv. In a san- 
guinary manner; blood thirstily. Bailey. 
sanguinarin, sanguinarine (sang-gwin'a-rin), 
n. [< Sanguinarin + -in%, -ine 2 .] An alkaloid 
found in Sanguinnria Canadensis. 
sanguinariness (sang'gwi-na-ri-nes), n. San- 
guinary, bloody, or bloodthirsty disposition or 
condition. Bailey. 
sanguinary (sang'gwi-na-ri), a. and n. [= F. 
sangiiinaire = Sp. Pg. \t'. sanguinario, < L. san- 
guinarius, sanguinaris, pertaining to blood, < 
sanguis (sanguin-), blood: see sang3.] I. a. 
1. Consisting of blood ; formed of blood: as, a 
sanguinary stream. 2. Bloody; attended with 
One shelter'd hare 
Has never heard the sanguinary yell 
Of cruel man, exulting in her woes. 
Cwper/Task, iii. 335. 
Like the slain in bloody fight, 
That in the grave lie deep. 
Milton, Ps. IxxrviiL, 1. 19. 
Slain by the bloody Piemontese that roll'd 
Mother with infant down the rocks. 
Milton, Sonnets, xiii. 
II. n. 1. The yarrow or milfoil: probably so . . 
called from its fabled use in stanching blood, sanguineous (sang-gwin'e-us), a. [< L. san- 
2. The bloodroot, Sanguinaria Canadensis. guineus, of blood, bloody': see sanguine.] 1. 
sanguine (sang'gwin), a. and n. [Early mod. Of or pertaining to blood; bloody. 
E. also sanguin; < ME. sanguin, sangwine, sail- This animal of Plato contalneth not only sanguineous 
gwyne, sungwein, < OF. (and F.) sanauin = Pr. an <| re P arab l< ! particles, but is made up of veins, nerves, 
'wngniHi = OCat. Bangui = Sp. sanguino, son- nd " tcri f 8 - ^ T - BromU! > Val - *" 
guinea = Pg. sanguineo, sanguinho = It. san- * f a deep-red or crimson color ; specifically, 
guigno, sanguineo (at. D. G. sanguinisclt = Dan. 1T1 -'""' *""' hnf " f -' 1 '"" 1 <""">>* i,;,,*, 
sangrinsk = Sw. sangvinisk), < L. sangtiineus, of 
blood, consisting of blood, bloody, bloodthirsty, 
blood-colored, red, < sanguis (sanguin-), blood: 
see sangS.] I. a. 1. Of blood; bloody. 
The sanguine stream proceeded from the arm of the 
body, which was now manifesting signs of returning life. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends, I. 188. 
i zoiil. and bot., of a deep, somewhat brownish, 
red color, like the color of clotted blood. 
His passion, cruel grown, took on a hue 
Fierce and sanguineous. Keats, Lamia, ii. 
3. Possessing a circulatory system; having 
blood. 
2. Bloodthirsty; bloody; sanguinary. [Bare.] 
All gaunt 
And sanguine beasts her gentle looks made tame. 
Shelley, Witch of Atlas, vi. 
I shall not mention what with warm applications we 
have done to revive the expired motion of the parts even 
of perfect and sanguineous animals, when they seem to 
have been killed. Boyle, Works, III. 124. 
4. Abounding with blood; having a full habit ; 
plethoric. 
A plethorick constitution in which true blood abounds 
is call'd sanguineous. Arbuthnot, Aliments, vi. 1. 1. 
5. Having a sanguine temperament; ardent; 
hopeful; confident Sanguineous creeper. See 
Myzomela. 
She was som-what brown of visage and sangwein colour, sanguinicoloUS (sang-gwi-nik'6-lus), a. [< L. 
and nother to fatte ne to lene, but was full a-pert aue- . ,,,,,, (<,anni,it, 1 WiW! -I- A/.7/..J I.WkMI 
naunt and comely, streight and right plesaunt, and well W"" (sanguin-), blood, -r- colere, inhabit.] 
syngynge. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 507. kame as sanguicolous. 
This face had bene more cumlie if that the redde in the Sanguiniference (sang-gwi-nif'e-rens), n. [< 
L. sangms (sanguin-), blood, + -ferentia, < fe- 
3. Of the color of blood ; red ; ruddy : as, a 
sanguine complexion; the sanguine francolin, 
Ithaginis cruentatus; specifically, in her., same 
as murrey. 
cheeke were somwhat more pure sun'min than it is. 
Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 114. 
4. Abounding with blood; plethoric; charac- 
terized by fullness of habit: as, a sanguine 
habit of body. 
ren(t-)s, ppr. otferre = E. ftearl.] The convey- 
ing of blood in the vessels. [Bare.] 
It would appear highly probable that the face and neck 
sympathize with the internal condition of the skull as re- 
gards Sanguiniference. E. C. Mann, Psychol. Med. , p. 427. 
The air of this place [Angora] is esteemed to be very . ., . .,, 
dry, and good for asthmatick constitutions, but pernicious SangUimieroUS (sang-gwi-mf e-rus), a. [< L. 
to the sanguine. sanguis (sanguin-), blood, 4- ferre = E. bear 1 ."] 
Pococtre, Description of the East, II. ii. 87. Same as sanguiferous. 
5. Characterized by an active and energetic cir- sanguinity (sang-gwin'i-ti), n. [< sanguine + 
culation of the blood ; having vitality ; hence, -ity. Cf . OF. sanguinite"= It. sanguinita, < ML. 
vivacious; cheerful; hopeful; confident; ar- sanguinita(t-)s, blood-relation, consanguinity: 
j 4.1 ---- *,.ii_ j__i:__j. i._i.:i__ii ---- ^j- --- gee consanguinity.] Sanguineness; ardor. 
I very much distrust your sanguinity. Su^ft. 
dent; hopefully inclined ; habitually confiding: 
as, a sanguine temperament; to be sanguine of 
success. See temperament. 
Of all men who form gay illusions of distant happiness, 
perhaps a poet is the most sanguine. 
sanguinivorous (sang-gwi-niv'o-rus), a. [< L. 
Hanging (sanguin-), blood, + vorare, devour.] 
Same as sanguivorous. 
Goldsmith, Tenants of the Leasowes. 8anguino l e nce (sang-gwin'o-lens), *. [< LL. 
sanguinolentia, a congestion, < Ti.sanguinolen tus, 
The phlegm of my cousin's doctrine is invariably at 
war with his temperament, which is high sanguine. 
Lamb, My Relations. 
We have made the experiment ; and It has succeeded 
far beyond our most sanguine expectations. 
Maeaulay, Utilitarian Theory of Government. 
= Syn. 5. Lively, animated, enthusiastic. 
II. n. 1. The color of blood; red; specifi- 
cally, in tier., same as murrey. 
bloody : see sanguinolent.] The state of being 
sanguinolent. 
sanguinolency (sang-gwin'o-len-si), n. [As 
sanguinolence (see -cy).~\ Same as sanguino- 
lence. 
That great red dragon with seven heads, so called from 
his sanguinolency. 
Dr. 11. More, Mystery of Iniquity, I. viii. 4. 
Obserue that she [the nurse] be of mature . . . age, ... . 
hauing her complection most of the right and pure o- Sanguinolent (sang-gwm o-lent), a. [= F. 
guine. Sir T. Elyot, The Governour, i. 4. 
A lively sanguine it seemd to the eye. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. viii. 6. 
2+. Bloodstone, with which cutlers stained the 
hilts of swords, etc. 3f. Anything of a blood- 
red color, as a garment. 
In sangu'in and in pers he clad was al. 
Chaucer, Gen. Prol. to C. T., 1. 439. 
4. A drawing executed with red chalks. 
sanguinolent (vernacularly sanglant: see san- 
glant) = Sp. Pg. It. sanguinolento, < L. sangui- 
nolentus.stiiiiiiiilf'ntiix, full of blood, bloody, < 
sanguis (sanguin-), blood: see sangS, sanguine.'} 
Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; full of 
blood ; sanguine. 
Although . . . the waves of all the Northerne Sea 
Should flow for ever through these guilty hands, 
Yet the sanffuinttlent staine would extant be! 
Martian and Barksted, Insatiate Countess, v. 
