blood stroke (bludstrok)

Apoplexy from or beheer congestion encephalic hemorrhage bloodsucker (blud's uk"ér), n. [ soukere = D. bloodzuiger = MHG. bluotsūüger = 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 vers i- 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 . Shak., 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's uking), a. Sucking or drawing blood; preying on the blood: as, “ blood sucking sighs," Shak ., 3 Hen. VI., iv. 4. blood-swelling (blud's wel ing), n. hematocele. May , tr. of Lucan's Pharsalia, vi. Same as blood-swollen (blud'swõln), a. Swelled or suffused with blood: as, "their blood - swoln eyes," bloodthirstine (blud'thers"ti-nes), n. [ 594 He governed with a cruelty and bloodthirstine that have obtained for him the name of the northern Nero. Brougham . bloodthirsty (blud'thers"ti), a. [ blood + thirsty ; = D. bloeddorstig = G.blutdürstig =Dan. Sw. Sw. blodtörstig .] blodtörstig . ] Eager to shed blood; blood; murderous: as, "his blood thir stie blade," de." Spe Spenser, F. Q 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. H. N. Oxenham , Short Studies, p. 60. In the West Indies, a