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blood
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noun
blood—the red liquid that circulates in the body and carries oxygen and nutrients
/blʌd/, /blʊd/, /blʊd/
noun
- countable, uncountableA vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.“Some insects are known for consuming blood.”“Blood started to spurt out of his hand due to the wound.”“It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time th”
- countable, uncountableA family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.“a friend of our own blood”“to share the blood of Saxon royalty”“TASHA: The captain wants those two taken into custody. // KORRIS: Do not let them take us, Worf. Help us. // KONMEL: Listen to the voice of your blood. You are not "of" these people.”
- countable, historical, uncountableOne of the four humours in the human body.
- countable, uncountableThe endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid.
- countable, informalA blood test or blood sample.“When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.”
- countable, uncountableThe sap or juice which flows in or from plants.“It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venou”“Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus ”“Look at a leaf. On it are many little raised lines which reach out to all parts of the leaf and back to the stem and twig. These are "veins," full of the tree's blood. It is white and looks very much ”
- countable, poetic, uncountableThe juice of anything, especially if red.“He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes.”
- countable, uncountableA temper of mind; a disposition; a mood.“When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth”“Hath Cassius liu'd / To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, / When greefe and blood ill temper'd, vexeth him?”“There was some little undefinable coolness between old General Chattesworth and Devereux. He admired the young fellow, and he liked good blood in his corps, but somehow he was glad when he thought he ”
- countable, obsolete, uncountableA lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.“Seest thou not[…]how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?”“[…] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]”
- countable, uncountableA blood horse, one of good pedigree.
- countable, figuratively, uncountableBloodshed.“They came looking for blood.”“Our Father’s Death Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood.”“Under Henry III. Amboise ceased to be a slaughter-house, as in the preceding reign, but it remained a sort of state prison. It is related that Anne d'Este of Ferrara, wife of Duc de Guise, while assis”
- countable, uncountableA friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.
- alt-of, countable, uncountableAlternative letter-case form of Blood (“a member of a certain gang”).
- US, countable, slang, uncountableLean, especially that is red.
- A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.“My union with the neighborhood kids teaches me Bloods don't say or write words starting with c's. This is how Bloods disrespect Crips. They replace all c's with k's or b's and cross out all remaining ”
verb
- transitiveTo cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.“The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him ”
- historicalTo let blood (from); to bleed.“On Sᵗ Stephens day the Farrier came constantly and blouded all the Cart-horses.”“Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention.”“She had been blooded, he said, 12 times in this last fortnight, and had lost 75 ounces of blood, besides undergoing blistering,and other discipline.”
- transitiveTo initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.
- obsolete, transitiveTo make eager for bloodshed or combat; to incite or enrage against.
name
- A surname.
Formsbloods(plural) · bloud(alternative, obsolete) · bloode(alternative, obsolete) · bl00d(alternative) · bloods(present, singular, third-person) · blooding(participle, present) · blooded(participle, past) · blooded(past) · Bloods(plural) · blood(alternative)
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