n. [ OE. blod, blood, AS. blōd; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. blōþ, Icel. blōð, 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. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
A friend of our own blood. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]
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Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. [ 1913 Webster ]
Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
(Stock Breeding) 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. Shak. [ 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. Hood. [ 1913 Webster ]
A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. [ 1913 Webster ]
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. Shak. [ 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 ]
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? Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
The juice of anything, especially if red. [ 1913 Webster ]
He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. Gen. xiix. 11. [ 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 ]
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