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CIDE DICTIONARY
blood, n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl, Icel. bl, Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.].
- 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. [1913 Webster]" 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 ." [1913 Webster] - Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. [1913 Webster]"To share the blood of Saxon royalty." [1913 Webster]"A friend of our own blood." [1913 Webster]
- Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. [1913 Webster]"Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam." [1913 Webster]"I am a gentleman of blood and breeding." [1913 Webster]
- Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. [1913 Webster]" 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." [1913 Webster]
- The fleshy nature of man. [1913 Webster]"Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood." [1913 Webster]
- The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. [1913 Webster]"So wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
Till blood for blood atones." [1913 Webster] - A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [1913 Webster]"He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries." [1913 Webster] - Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. [1913 Webster]" 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." [1913 Webster]"When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth." [1913 Webster]
- A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. [1913 Webster]"Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?" [1913 Webster]"It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood." [1913 Webster]
- The juice of anything, especially if red. [1913 Webster]" 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." [1913 Webster]"He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes." [1913 Webster]
blood, v. t.
- To bleed. Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [1913 Webster]"Reach out their spears afar,
And blood their points." [1913 Webster] - To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. [1913 Webster]"It was most important too that his troops should be blooded." [1913 Webster]
- To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [1913 Webster]"The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
blood, n. & v.
--n.
1 a liquid, usually red and circulating in the arteries and veins of vertebrates, that carries oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
2 a corresponding fluid in invertebrates.
3 bloodshed, esp. killing.
4 passion, temperament.
5 race, descent, parentage (of the same blood).
6 a relationship; relations (own flesh and blood; blood is thicker than water).
7 a dandy; a man of fashion.
--v.tr.
1 give (a hound) a first taste of blood.
2 initiate (a person) by experience.
--n.
1 a liquid, usually red and circulating in the arteries and veins of vertebrates, that carries oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
2 a corresponding fluid in invertebrates.
3 bloodshed, esp. killing.
4 passion, temperament.
5 race, descent, parentage (of the same blood).
6 a relationship; relations (own flesh and blood; blood is thicker than water).
7 a dandy; a man of fashion.
--v.tr.
1 give (a hound) a first taste of blood.
2 initiate (a person) by experience.
Idiom
bad blood ill feeling. blood-and-thunder (attrib.) colloq. sensational, melodramatic. blood bank a place where supplies of blood or plasma for transfusion are stored. blood bath a massacre. blood-brother a brother by birth or by the ceremonial mingling of blood. blood count
1 the counting of the number of corpuscles in a specific amount of blood.
2 the number itself. blood-curdling horrifying. blood donor one who gives blood for transfusion. blood feud a feud between families involving killing or injury. blood group any one of the various types of human blood determining compatibility in transfusion. blood-heat the normal body temperature of a healthy human being, about 37 °C or 98.4 °F. blood horse a thoroughbred. one's blood is up one is in a fighting mood.
blood-letting
1 the surgical removal of some of a patient's blood.
2 joc. bloodshed. blood-lust the desire for shedding blood.
blood-money
1 money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed.
2 money paid to a hired murderer.
3 money paid for information about a murder or murderer. blood orange an orange with red or red-streaked pulp. blood-poisoning a diseased state caused by the presence of micro-organisms in the blood. blood pressure the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system, often measured for diagnosis since it is closely related to the force and rate of the heartbeat and the diameter and elasticity of the arterial walls. blood-red red as blood. blood relation (or relative) a relative by blood, not by marriage. blood royal the royal family. blood serum see SERUM. blood sport sport involving the wounding or killing of animals, esp. hunting. blood sugar the amount of glucose in the blood. blood test a scientific examination of blood, esp. for diagnosis. blood transfusion the injection of a volume of blood, previously taken from a healthy person, into a patient. blood-vessel a vein, artery, or capillary carrying blood. blood-wort any of various plants having red roots or leaves, esp. the red-veined dock.
first blood
1 the first shedding of blood, esp. in boxing.
2 the first point gained in a contest etc. in one's blood inherent in one's character. make one's blood boil infuriate one. make one's blood run cold horrify one. new (or fresh) blood new members admitted to a group, esp. as an invigorating force. of the blood royal. out for a person's blood set on getting revenge. taste blood be stimulated by an early success.
young blood
1 a younger member or members of a group.
2 a rake or fashionable young man.
1 the counting of the number of corpuscles in a specific amount of blood.
2 the number itself. blood-curdling horrifying. blood donor one who gives blood for transfusion. blood feud a feud between families involving killing or injury. blood group any one of the various types of human blood determining compatibility in transfusion. blood-heat the normal body temperature of a healthy human being, about 37 °C or 98.4 °F. blood horse a thoroughbred. one's blood is up one is in a fighting mood.
blood-letting
1 the surgical removal of some of a patient's blood.
2 joc. bloodshed. blood-lust the desire for shedding blood.
blood-money
1 money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed.
2 money paid to a hired murderer.
3 money paid for information about a murder or murderer. blood orange an orange with red or red-streaked pulp. blood-poisoning a diseased state caused by the presence of micro-organisms in the blood. blood pressure the pressure of the blood in the circulatory system, often measured for diagnosis since it is closely related to the force and rate of the heartbeat and the diameter and elasticity of the arterial walls. blood-red red as blood. blood relation (or relative) a relative by blood, not by marriage. blood royal the royal family. blood serum see SERUM. blood sport sport involving the wounding or killing of animals, esp. hunting. blood sugar the amount of glucose in the blood. blood test a scientific examination of blood, esp. for diagnosis. blood transfusion the injection of a volume of blood, previously taken from a healthy person, into a patient. blood-vessel a vein, artery, or capillary carrying blood. blood-wort any of various plants having red roots or leaves, esp. the red-veined dock.
first blood
1 the first shedding of blood, esp. in boxing.
2 the first point gained in a contest etc. in one's blood inherent in one's character. make one's blood boil infuriate one. make one's blood run cold horrify one. new (or fresh) blood new members admitted to a group, esp. as an invigorating force. of the blood royal. out for a person's blood set on getting revenge. taste blood be stimulated by an early success.
young blood
1 a younger member or members of a group.
2 a rake or fashionable young man.
Etymology
OE blod f. Gmc
THESAURUS
blood
Beau Brummel, Christmas disease, Hand-Schuller-Christian disease, Letterer-Siwe syndrome, Rh factor, Rh-negative, Rh-positive, Rh-type, Rhesus factor, acute leukemia, affiliation, agnate, agnation, alliance, ancestry, anemia, angiohemophilia, anima, animal kingdom, animating force, antibody, antigen, aplastic anemia, apparentation, aristocracy, aristocraticalness, arterial blood, atman, bane, bathmism, beating heart, beau, beverage, biological clock, biorhythm, birth, blade, blood bank, blood cell, blood count, blood donor, blood donor center, blood group, blood grouping, blood picture, blood platelet, blood pressure, blood relation, blood relationship, blood relative, blood serum, blood substitute, bloodletting, bloodline, bloodmobile, bloodshed, bloodstream, blue blood, boulevardier, bracket, braining, branch, brand, breath, breath of life, breed, brood, brotherhood, brothership, buck, cast, caste, category, character, chronic leukemia, circulation, clan, clansman, claret, class, clinical dextran, clotheshorse, cognate, cognation, collateral, collateral relative, color, common ancestry, common descent, connection, connections, consanguinean, consanguinity, cousinhood, cousinship, coxcomb, cyclic neutropenia, dandy, dealing death, deme, denomination, derivation, descent, description, designation, destruction, destruction of life, dextran, direct line, dispatch, distaff side, distant relation, distinction, divine breath, divine spark, division, drink, dude, elan vital, enate, enation, erythrocyte, erythrocytosis, essence of life, estate, euthanasia, execution, exquisite, extermination, extraction, family, fashion plate, fatherhood, feather, female line, filiation, fine gentleman, flesh, flesh and blood, flow of blood, fluid, fluid extract, fluid mechanics, folk, folks, fop, force of life, form, foul play, fraternity, fribble, gallant, genre, gens, genteelness, genus, german, globulin, gore, grade, grain, group, grouping, growth force, grume, head, heading, heart, heartbeat, heartblood, hematics, hematologist, hematology, hematoscope, hematoscopy, hemocyte, hemoglobin, hemoglobinopathy, hemometer, hemophilia, hemophilia A, hemophilia B, homicide, honorable descent, house, humor, hydraulics, hydrogeology, hypochromic anemia, ichor, ilk, immolation, impulse of life, infectious granuloma, inspiriting force, iron deficiency anemia, isoantibody, jack-a-dandy, jackanapes, jiva, jivatma, juice, kidney, kill, killing, kin, kind, kindred, kinfolk, kinnery, kinsfolk, kinship, kinsman, kinsmen, kinswoman, kith and kin, label, lady-killer, lapidation, latex, leukemia, leukemic reticuloendotheliosis, leukocyte, level, life breath, life cycle, life essence, life force, life principle, life process, lifeblood, line, line of descent, lineage, liquid, liquid extract, liquor, living force, lot, lounge lizard, macaroni, macrocytic anemia, make, male line, man-about-town, manner, manslaughter, mark, martyrdom, martyrization, masher, maternity, matriclan, matrilineage, matriliny, matrisib, matrocliny, mercy killing, milk, mold, motherhood, multiple myeloma, myelogenous leukemia, nation, nature, near relation, neutropenia, neutrophil, next of kin, nobility, noble birth, nobleness, number, opsonin, order, origin, paternity, patriclan, patrilineage, patriliny, patrisib, patrocliny, pedigree, people, pernicious anemia, persuasion, phagocyte, phratry, phyle, phylum, pigeonhole, plant kingdom, plasma, plasma cell leukemia, plasma substitute, plasmacytoma, pneuma, poisoning, polycythemia, position, posterity, prana, predicament, propinquity, pseudoleukemia, puppy, purpura, purpura hemorrhagica, quality, race, rank, rating, red corpuscle, relation, relations, relationship, relatives, ritual killing, ritual murder, royalty, rubric, sacrifice, sap, seat of life, section, seed, semiliquid, sept, serum, set, shape, shooting, sib, sibling, sibship, sickle-cell anemia, side, sisterhood, sistership, slaughter, slaying, sort, soul, spark, spark of life, spear kin, spear side, species, spindle kin, spindle side, spirit, sport, stamp, station, status, stem, stirps, stock, stoning, strain, stratum, stripe, style, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, succession, swell, sword side, taking of life, thalassemia, the like of, the likes of, ties of blood, title, totem, tribe, tribesman, type, type O, uterine kin, variety, vascular hemophilia, venous blood, vis vitae, vis vitalis, vital energy, vital flame, vital fluid, vital force, vital principle, vital spark, vital spirit, water, whey, white corpuscleROGET THESAURUS
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Consanguinity
N consanguinity, relationship, kindred, blood, parentage, filiation, affiliation, lineage, agnation, connection, alliance, family connection, family tie, ties of blood, nepotism, kinsman, kinfolk, kith and kin, relation, relative, connection, sibling, sib, next of kin, uncle, aunt, nephew, niece, cousin, cousin- german, first cousin, second cousin, cousin once removed, cousin twice removed, ear relation, distant relation, brother, sister, one's own flesh and blood, family, fraternity, brotherhood, sisterhood, cousinhood, race, stock, generation, sept, stirps, side, strain, breed, clan, tribe, nation, related, akin, consanguineous, of the blood, family, allied, collateral, cognate, agnate, connate, kindred, affiliated, fraternal, intimately related, nearly related, closely related, remotely related, distantly related, allied, german.Fop
N fop, fine gentleman, swell, dandy, dandiprat, exquisite, coxcomb, beau, macaroni, blade, blood, buck, man about town, fast man, fribble, milliner, Jemmy Jessamy, carpet knight, masher, dude, fine lady, coquette, flirt, vamp.Nobility
N nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order, quality, gentility, blue blood of Castile, ancien regime, high life, haute monde, upper classes, upper ten thousand, the four hundred, elite, aristocracy, great folks, fashionable world, peer, peerage, house of lords, house of peers, lords, lords temporal and spiritual, noblesse, noble, nobleman, lord, lordling, grandee, magnifico, hidalgo, daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku, don, donship, aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw, gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate, gentry, gentlefolk, squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates, pantisocracy, king, atheling, prince, duke, marquis, marquisate, earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret, baronet, baronetcy, knight, knighthood, count, armiger, laird, signior, seignior, esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour, emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali, sahib, chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave, princess, begum, duchess, marchioness, countess, lady, dame, memsahib, Do$a, maharani, rani, personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark, notables, notabilities, celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar, big bug, big gun, great gun, gilded rooster, magni nominis umbra, every inch a king, noble, exalted, of rank, princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic, high-, well-born, of gentle blood, genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly, highly respectable, in high quarters, Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete, adelig und edel sind zweierlei, noblesse oblige.Fluidity
N fluidity, liquidity, liquidness, gaseity, fluid, inelastic fluid, liquid, liquor, lymph, humor, juice, sap, serum, blood, serosity, gravy, rheum, ichor, sanies, chyle, solubility, solubleness, hydrology, hydrostatics, hydrodynamics, liquid, fluid, serous, juicy, succulent, sappy, ichorous, fluent, liquefied, uncongealed, soluble.Killing
N killing, homicide, manslaughter, murder, assassination, trucidation, iccusion, effusion of blood, blood, blood shed, gore, slaughter, carnage, butchery, battue, massacre, fusillade, noyade, thuggery, Thuggism, deathblow, finishing stroke, coup de grace, quietus, execution, judicial murder, martyrdom, butcher, slayer, murderer, Cain, assassin, terrorist, cutthroat, garroter, bravo, Thug, Moloch, matador, sabreur, guet-a-pens, gallows, executioner, man-eater, apache, hatchet man, highbinder, regicide, parricide, matricide, fratricide, infanticide, feticide, foeticide, uxoricide, vaticide, suicide, felo de se, hara-kiri, suttee, Juggernath, immolation, auto da fe, holocaust, suffocation, strangulation, garrote, hanging, lapidation, deadly weapon, Aceldama, slaughtering, phthisozoics, sport, sporting, the chase, venery, hunting, coursing, shooting, fishing, pig- sticking, sportsman, huntsman, fisherman, hunter, Nimrod, slaughterhouse, meat packing plant, shambles, abattoir, fatal accident, violent death, casualty, killing, murderous, slaughterous, sanguinary, sanguinolent, blood stained, blood thirsty, homicidal, red handed, bloody, bloody minded, ensanguined, gory, thuggish, mortal, fatal, lethal, dead, deadly, mortiferous, lethiferous, unhealthy internecine, suicidal, sporting, piscatorial, piscatory, in at the death, assassination has never changed the history of the.Also see definition of "blood" in Bible Study Dictionaries
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