blood

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys…

   A 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.
2. 2

   A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings

   A 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.
3. 3

   One of the four humours in the human body.

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   1. 4

      The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation

      The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid or period blood.

   2. 5

      A 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.
   3. 6

      The 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 venous is called "black blood."
      • 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 like water; [...]
   4. 7

      The juice of anything, especially if red.

      • He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes.
   5. 8

      A temper of mind

      A 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?
   6. 9

      A lively, showy man

      A 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 […]
   7. 10

      A blood horse, one of good pedigree.

   8. 11

      Bloodshed.

      • They came looking for blood.
      • Our Father’s Death Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood.
   9. 12

      A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.

   10. 13

       Alternative letter-case form of Blood (“a member of a certain gang”).

   11. 14

       Alternative form of blud (“an informal address to a male.”).

       • Blood I swear she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken.
   12. 15

       Lean, especially that is red.

   13. 16

       To cause something to be covered with blood

       To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

   14. 17

       To let blood (from)

       To 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.
   15. 18

       To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of…

       To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.

   16. 19

       To make eager for bloodshed or combat

       To make eager for bloodshed or combat; to incite or enrage against.

   17. 20

       A member of the Los Angeles gang the Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense…

       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 c's in the word.
   18. 21

       A surname.

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