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bloodheat

noun

Etymology

From blood + heat.

  1. derived from *keHy-✻ — “heat; hot”
  2. inherited from *haitį̄✻ — “heat”
  3. inherited from *haitī✻
  4. inherited from hǣtu
  5. inherited from hete
  6. compounded as bloodheat — “blood + heat”

Definitions

  1. The temperature of the body of a living mammal.

    • From this, you may judge of the enervating effect of this climate, being 5 deg. above bloodheat, and if it were always so, it would be indeed unbearable […]

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