Blood

blud, n. the red fluid in the arteries and veins of men and animals: descent, of human beings, good birth: relationship, kindred: elliptically for a blood-horse, one of good pedigree: a rake or swaggering dandy about town: the blood-royal, as in 'princes of blood:' temperament: bloodshed or murder: the juice of anything, esp. if red: the supposed seat of pa ion—hence temper, anger, as in the phrase, 'his blood is up,' .: the sensual nature of man.— interj. ' s blood —God's blood.— adjs. Blood′-bespot′ted ( Shak. ), spotted with blood; Blood′-bolt′ered ( Shak. ), sprinkled with blood as from a bolter or sieve; Blood′-bought , bought at the expense of blood or life; Blood′-froz′en ( Spens. ), having the blood frozen or chilled.— ns. Blood′guilt′ine , the guilt of shedding blood, as in murder; Blood′heat , heat of the same degree as that of the human blood (about 98° Fahr.); Blood′-horse , a horse of the purest and most highly prized blood, origin, or stock.— adj. Blood′-hot , as hot or warm as blood.— n. Blood′hound , a large hound formerly employed in tracing human beings: a blood-thirsty person.— adv. Blood′ily .— adj. Blood′le , without blood, dead: without the shedding of blood: ( Shak. ) without spirit or activity.— ns. Blood′-let′ting , the act of letting blood, or bleeding by opening a vein; Blood′-mon′ey , money earned by laying or supporting a capital charge against any one, esp. if the charge be false or made by an accomplice; Blood′-pois′oning , a name popularly, but loosely, used of pyæmia and allied diseases; Blood′-pud′ding , a pudding made with blood and other materials; Blood′-relā′tion , one related by blood or marriage; Blood′-sac′rifice ( Shak. ), a sacrifice made with bloodshed; Blood′shed , the shedding of blood: slaughter.— adjs. Blood′shot (of the eye), red or inflamed with blood; Blood′-sized , sized or smeared with blood.— n. Blood′-spav′in , a disease of horses consisting of the swelling of a vein on the inside of the hock, from a checking of the blood.— adj. Blood′-stained , stained with blood: guilty of murder.— ns. Blood′-stone , a dark-green variety of quartz, variegated with blood-like spots of red jasper, the heliotrope; a brown ore of iron, hematite; Blood′-suck′er , an animal that sucks blood, esp. a leech: an extortioner, one who sponges upon another.— adj. Blood′-suck′ing ( Shak. ), that sucks or draws blood.— ns. Blood′-tax , conscription or universal military service, as drawing from the nation a certain number of lives or recruits annually; Blood′-thirst′ine , thirst or desire for shedding blood.— adj. Blood′-thirst′y , having a thirst or desire to shed blood.— ns. Blood′-ves′sel , a ve el in which blood circulates, a vein or artery; Blood′-worm , a small red earthworm used by anglers.— adj. Blood′y , of the nature of blood: stained with blood: murderous, cruel: vulgarly, as an adj. emphasising anger or the like: as an adv. employed as a mere intensive—most prob. from the habits of the 'bloods' about the beginning of the 18th century (Ether edge, ' bloody -drunk').— v.t. to make bloody.— n. Blood′y-bones , a phrase, together with Rawhead , applied to a children's bugbear.— adjs. Blood′y-eyed ; Blood′y-faced .— ns. Blood′y-flux , dysentery, in which the discharges from the bowels are mixed with blood; Blood′y-hand ( her. ), the armorial device of Ulster, hence of baronets.— adj. Blood′y-mind′ed .— ns. Blood′y-mind′edne ; Blood′y-sweat , a sweat accompanied with the discharge of blood.— Avenger of blood , the next-of-kin to a murdered man, whose duty it was to avenge his death—the Hebrew Goël .— Eating of blood , prohibited under the Old Testament dispensation, Jews still killing their own butcher-meat.— In blood , in full vigour; In hot or cold blood , under or free from excitement or sudden pa ion. [A.S. blód —root blówan , to bloom; cog. with Old. Fris. blód , Ger. blut .]