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Blood (blŭd), n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl&ō;d; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl&ō;þ, Icel. bl&ō;ð, Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.] 1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
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&hand_; The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma.
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2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
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To share the blood of Saxon royalty.
Sir W. Scott.
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A friend of our own blood.
Waller.
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Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. -- Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. Bouvier. Peters.
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3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
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Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam.
Shak.
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I am a gentleman of blood and breeding.
Shak.
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4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.
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&hand_; In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood.
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5. The fleshy nature of man.
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Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood.
Shak.
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6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
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So wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
Till blood for blood atones.
Hood.
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7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
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He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries.
Shak.
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8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
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When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
Shak.
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&hand_; Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up.
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9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
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Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
Shak.
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It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
Thackeray.
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10. The juice of anything, especially if red.
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He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
Gen. xiix. 11.
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&hand_; Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won.
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Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism. -- Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury. -- Blood brother, brother by blood or birth. -- Blood clam (Zo&ö;l.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh. -- Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle. -- Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the hæmoglobin of the red blood corpuscles; hæmatocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals. -- Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 981/2 ° Fahr. -- Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock. -- Blood money. See in the Vocabulary. -- Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp. -- Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; toxæmia. -- Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials. -- Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent. -- Blood spavin. See under Spavin. -- Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary. -- Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover , has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family. -- Flesh and blood. (a) A blood relation, esp. a child. (b) Human nature. -- In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor. Shak. -- To let blood. See under Let. -- Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal.
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Blood (&unr_;), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooding.] 1. To bleed. [Obs.] Cowper.
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2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic]
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Reach out their spears afar,
And blood their points.
Dryden.
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3. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
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It was most important too that his troops should be blooded.
Macaulay.
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4. To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.]
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The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another.
Bacon.
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