Blood

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  • noun. undefined
  • noun. The fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues.
  • noun. A similar fluid in animals other than vertebrates.
  • noun. The juice or sap of certain plants.
  • noun. A vital or animating force; lifeblood.
  • noun. One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, identified with the blood found in blood vessels, and thought to cause cheerfulness.
  • noun. Bloodshed; murder.
  • noun. Temperament or disposition.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. Descent from a common ancestor; parental lineage.
  • noun. Family relationship; kinship.
  • noun. Descent from noble or royal lineage.
  • noun. Recorded descent from purebred stock.
  • noun. National or racial ancestry.
  • noun. A dandy.
  • transitive verb. To give (a hunting dog) its first taste of blood.
  • transitive verb. undefined
  • transitive verb. To subject (troops) to experience under fire.
  • transitive verb. To initiate by subjecting to an unpleasant or difficult experience.
  • idiom. (bad blood) Long-standing animosity.
  • idiom. (in cold blood) Deliberately, coldly, and dispassionately.
  • idiom. (in (one's) blood) So characteristic as to seem inherited or passed down by family tradition.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To let blood from; bleed by opening a vein.
  • To stain with blood.
  • Hence To give a taste of blood; inure to the sight of blood.
  • To heat the blood of; excite; exasperate.
  • To victimize; extract money from (a person); bleed.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. In animal-breeding, and by analogy in plant-breeding, the peculiar character of an individual conceived as transmissible.
  • noun. The fluid which circulates in the arteries and veins.
  • noun. . Blood that is shed; bloodshed; slaughter; murder.
  • noun. The responsibility or guilt of shedding the blood of others.
  • noun. From being popularly regarded as the fluid in which more especially the life resides, as the seat of feelings, passions, hereditary qualities, etc., the word blood has come to be used typically, or with certain associated ideas, in a number of different ways.
  • noun. Fleshly nature; the carnal part of man, as opposed to the spiritual nature or divine life.
  • noun. Temper of mind; natural disposition; high spirit; mettle; passion; anger: in this sense often accompanied with cold or warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood is to do it deliberately and without sudden passion. Hot or warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated; to warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions.
  • noun. A man of fire or spirit; a hot spark; a rake.
  • noun. Persons of any specified race, nationality, or family, considered collectively.
  • noun. Birth; extraction; parentage; breed; absolutely, high birth; good extraction: often qualified by such adjectives as good, base, etc.
  • noun. One who inherits the blood of another; child; collectively, offspring; progeny.
  • noun. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; lineage; kindred; family.
  • noun. That which resembles blood; the juice of anything, especially if red: as, “the blood of grapes,” Gen. xlix. 11.
  • noun. A disease in cattle.
  • noun. A commercial name for red coral.
  • noun. Offspring; progeny; child or children: as, one's own flesh and blood should be preferred to strangers.
  • noun. To be put to death.
  • In leather-coloring, to apply a coating of blood to, in order to obtain a good black.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To bleed.
  • transitive verb. To stain, smear or wet, with blood.
  • transitive verb. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
  • transitive verb. To heat the blood of; to exasperate.
  • Word Usage
    "Through transubstantiation, the bread and wine consumed by worshipers become the body and blood of Jesus when a priest, acting on Jesus’ behalf, speaks the words “This is my body” and “This is my blood” over them."
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    Bud  Flood  Judd  Rudd  bud  
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    Stones  body  boys  death  distinction  
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    blooded  blooding  bloods