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BLOOD-BOLTERED, adj. Blood-fprinkled.—Tlie 
blood-bolter'd Banquo fmiles upon me, Macbeth. 
BLOOD- FLO WER, f. in botany. See Haemanthus. 
BLOODGUIL'TINESS, f. Murder; the crime of 
fiiedding blood : 
And were there rightful caufe of difference, 
Yet were’t not better, fair it to accord, 
Titan with bloodguiltimfs to heap offence, 
And mortal vengeance join to crime abhorr’d ? Fairy Queen. 
BLOOD-HOT, adj. Hot in tiie fame degree with 
blood.—A good piece of bread firll to be eaten, will gain 
time to warm the beer blood-hot, which then he may drink 
fafely. Locke. 
BLOOD-HOUND,/, in zoology. See Canis. 
BLOOD'ILY, adv. With difpofition to filed blood ; 
cruelly : 
Mine enemies 
To-day at Pomfret bloodily were butcher’d. Shakcfpeare. 
BLOOD'INESS, f The date of being bloody.—It 
will manifed itfelf by its bloodinefs ; yet fometimes the 
fcall is fo thin as not to admit of any. Sharp. 
BLOOD'LESS, adj. Without blood ; dead ; without 
/laughter: 
War brings ruin where it fhould amend ; 
But beauty, with a bloodljs conqueft, finds 
A welcome fov’reignty in rudeft minds. Waller. 
To BLOOD-LET, v. n. To bleed ; to open a vein 
medicinally.—The chyle is not perfectly adiniiiated into 
blood by its circulation through the kings, as is known 
by experiments in blood-letting. Arbuthnot. 
BLOOD-LETTER, f. A phlebotomid; one that takes 
away blood medically.—This mifehief, in aneurifms, pro- 
ceedeth from the ignorance of the blood-letter, who, not 
confidering the error committed in letting blood, binds up 
the arm carelefsly. IVifeman. 
BLOOD'SHED, f. The crime of blood or murder.— 
A man, under the tranfports of a vehement rage, paffes a 
different judgment upon murder and bloodjhed, from what 
lie does when his revenge is over. South. —Slaughter; 
wade of life : 
Of wars and bloodjhed, and of dire events, 
I could with greater certainty foretel. Dryden. 
BLOOD'SHEDDER, / Murderer.—He that taketh 
away his neighbour’s living, flayeth him; and he that 
defraudeth the labourer of his hire, is a bloodjhedder. 
Ecclus. xxxiv. 22. 
BLOOD'SHOT, or Bloodshotten, adj. Filled with 
blood binding from its proper veffels. See Ophthalmia. 
BLOOD-SPAVIN. See Farriery. 
BLOOD-STONE, f See Haematites. 
BLOOD'SUCKER, f. A leech ; a fly; any thing that 
fucks blood ; a cruel man; a murderer : 
God keep the prince from all the pack of you ; 
A knot you are of damned bloodfuchers, Shakejpeare. 
BLOOD-THIRSTY, adj. Defirous to iked blood.—• 
The image of God the blood-thirjly have not; for God is 
charity and mercy itfelf. Raleigh. 
BLOOD-VESSEL, f A veffel appropriated by nature 
to the conveyance of the blood.—The fkins of the fore¬ 
head were extremely tough and thick, and had not in them 
any blood-vejjel , that we were able to difeover. Addifon. 
BLOOD'WIT, or Bloudwit, f. [compounded of 
Sa x. b/od, i. e.fanguis ;-and wyte. Old Eng. miJericordia.~_ j 
Is often ufed in ancient charters of liberties for an amerce¬ 
ment for blood died. Skene writes it bloudveit ; and fays 
veit in Englifh is injuria ; and that bloudveit is an amercia¬ 
ment or unlaw (as the Scotch call it) for wrong or injury, 
as bloodfhed is : for he that hath bloudveit granted him, 
hath free liberty to take all amerciaments of courts for 
effudon of blood. Fleta faith, Quod fignijicat quietantiam 
mifericordiae pro ejfufione fanguinis. Lib. i. cap. 47. And 
according to dome writers, blodwitc was a cuffoniary fine 
Vo l. III. No. j?j. 
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paid as a compofition and atonement for (bedding or draw¬ 
ing of blood; for which the place was anfwerable, if the 
party was not difeovered : and therefore a privilege or 
exemption from this fine or penalty was granted by the 
king, or flip rente lord, as a fpecial favour. So Henry II. 
granted to all tenants within the honour of Willingford, 
Ut qnietijint de Hidagio, ct blodcu'ite, See. Parock. Aniiq. 114. 
BLOQD'WORT, or Bloody-Dock, f. See Rumex. 
BLOO'DY, adj. Stained with blood ; cruel ; murder¬ 
ous : applied either to men or faffs.—Falle of heart, light 
of ear, bloody of hand. Shakejpeare. 
Proud Nimrod fird the bloody chace began, 
A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. Pope „ 
BLOODY BAY, a bay on the north fide of the ifland 
of Egmont, or New Guernfey. 
BLOODY FARLOND’s POINT, a cape on the north- 
wed coaft of Ireland, in the county of Donegal : thirty- 
five miles wed-north-wed of Londonderry. Lat. 55. 10. N. 
Ion. 8. 11. W. Greenwich. 
BLOODY-FLUX, / The dyfentery ; a difeafe is 
which the excrements are mixed with blood.—Cold, by- 
retarding the motion of the blood, and fupprefdng perfpi- 
ration, produces giddinefs, fleepinefs, pains in the bowels, 
loofenefs, bloodyJluxes. Arbuthnot. 
BLOODY-HAND, f. Is one of the four kinds of cir- 
cumdances by which a offender is fuppofed to have killed 
deer in the king’s fored: and it is where a trefpaffer is ap¬ 
prehended in the fored, with his hands or other parts 
bloody, though he be not found chafing or hunting of 
the deer. Manwood. In Scotland, in fuch like crimes, 
they fay, Taken in the faft, or with the red hand. See 
Backberind. 
BLOODY ISLAND, an ifland in the harbour of port 
Mahon, in the ifland of Minorca. 
BLOODY-MINDED, adj. Cruel; inclined to blood- 
died..—Truth lias been at my tongue’s end this half-hour, 
and 1 have not the power to bring it out, for fear of this 
bloody-minded colonel. Dryden. 
BLOODY POINT, a cape on the fouth-wed coad of 
the idand of St. Chridopher’s. Lat. 17. 24 N. Ion. 62. 
41. W. Greenwich. 
BLOODY-RAW,/ See Rain. 
BLOODY-SWEAT, f. Many indances of this are re¬ 
corded, in which it has been owing to bodily diforder, or 
extreme mental agitation and agony. See particularly 
Aridotle’s Hid. Animal, lib. iii. cap. 19. apud Oper. 
tom. i. Thuanus Hid. Temp. &c. lib. ii. apud Oper. 
tom. i. Melanges d’Hidoire et de Literature, See. par 
M. V. Marville, tom. iii. p. 149. Afla Phyfico-Med. 
Norimbergae, vol.i. p. 84. and vol. viii. p. 428. 
BLOODY-URINE, /. See Medicine. 
B LOOM,/ [blum, Ger. bloem, Dut.J A blodom ; the 
flower which precedes the fruit: 
How nature paints her colours ; how the bee 
Sits on her bloom, extrafling liquid fweet. Miller. 
The date of immaturity ; the date of any thing improv¬ 
ing, and ripening to higher perfection : 
Were I no queen, did you my beauty weigh, 
My youth in bloom, your age in its decay. Dryden. 
The blue colour upon plumbs and grapes newly gathered. 
In the iron-works, a piece of iron wrought into a mafs 
two feet fquare. 
To BLOOM, v. n. To bring or yield blofFoms.—The 
rod of Aaron for the houfe of Levi was budded, and 
brought forth buds, and bloomed blodoms, and yielded al¬ 
monds. Numbers, xvii. 8.—To produce, as blofFoms.— 
Rites and cudoms, now fuperditious, when the drength 
of virtuous, devout, or charitable, affeflion, bloomed, them, 
no man could judly have condemned as evil. Hooker.-— To 
be in a date of youth and improvement: 
O greatly blefs’d with ev’ry blooming grace I 
With equal d.eps the path of glory trace. Pope. 
L 1 BLOO'MY. 
