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<p><b>2.</b> <def>Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.</def>

<blockquote>To share the <b>blood</b> of Saxon royalty. <i>Sir W. Scott.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A friend of our own <b>blood</b>. <i>Waller.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Half blood</col> <fld>(Law)</fld>, <cd>relationship through only one parent.</cd> -- <col>Whole blood</col>, <cd>relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, <i>blood<i> includes both half blood, and whole blood.</cd></cs>

<i>Bouvier. Peters.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.</def>

<blockquote>Give us a prince of <b>blood</b>, a son of Priam. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>I am a gentleman of <b>blood</b> and breeding. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <fld>(Stock Breeding)</fld> <def>Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.</def>

<note>&hand; In stock breeding <i>half blood</i> is descent showing one half only of pure breed. <i>Blue blood</i>, <i>full blood</i>, or <i>warm blood</i>, is the same as <i>blood</i>.</note>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>The fleshy nature of man.</def>

<blockquote>Nor gives it satisfaction to our <b>blood</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.</def>

<blockquote>So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till <b>blood</b> for <b>blood</b> atones. <i>Hood.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>He was a thing of <b>blood</b>, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.</def>

<blockquote>When you perceive his <b>blood</b> inclined to mirth. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; Often, in this sense, accompanied with <i>bad</i>, <i>cold</i>, <i>warm</i>, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in <i>cold blood</i>, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in <i>bad blood</i>, is to do it in anger. <i>Warm blood</i> denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To <i>warm</i> or <i>heat the blood</i> is to excite the passions. Qualified by <i>up</i>, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my <i>blood</i> was <i>up</i>.</note>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.</def>

<blockquote>Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot <b>bloods</b> between fourteen and five and thirty? <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>It was the morning costume of a dandy or <b>blood</b>. <i>Thackeray.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <def>The juice of anything, especially if red.</def>

<blockquote>He washed . . . his clothes in the <b>blood</b> of grapes. <i>Gen. xiix. 11.</i></blockquote>

<note>&hand; <i>Blood</i> is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, <i>blood-</i>bespotted, <i>blood-</i>bought, <i>blood-</i>curdling, <i>blood-</i>dyed, <i>blood-</i>red, <i>blood-</i>spilling, <i>blood-</i>stained, <i>blood-</i>warm, <i>blood-</i>won.</note>

<cs><col>Blood baptism</col> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld>, <cd>the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism.</cd> -- <col>Blood blister</col>, <cd>a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury.</cd> -- <col>Blood brother</col>, <cd>brother by blood or birth.</cd> -- <col>Blood clam</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. <spn>Argina pexata</spn> of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh.</cd> -- <col>Blood corpuscle</col>. <cd>See <er>Corpuscle</er>.</cd> -- <col>Blood crystal</col> <fld>(Physiol.)</fld>, <cd>one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the h\'91moglobin of the red blood corpuscles; h\'91matocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals.</cd> -- <col>Blood heat</col>, <cd>heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 98\'ab &deg; Fahr.</cd> -- <col>Blood horse</col>, <cd>a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.</cd> -- <col>Blood money</col>. <cd>See in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Blood orange</col>, <cd>an orange with dark red pulp.</cd> -- <col>Blood poisoning</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; tox\'91mia.</cd> -- <col>Blood pudding</col>, <cd>a pudding made of blood and other materials.</cd> -- <col>Blood relation</col>, <cd>one connected by blood or descent.</cd> -- <col>Blood spavin</col>. <cd>See under <er>Spavin</er>.</cd> -- <col>Blood vessel</col>. <cd>See in the Vocabulary.</cd> -- <col>Blue blood</col>, <cd>the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover , has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family.</cd> -- <col>Flesh and blood</col>. <cd><sd>(a)</sd> A blood relation, esp. a child. <sd>(b)</sd> Human nature.</cd> -- <col>In blood</col> <fld>(Hunting)</fld>, <cd>in a state of perfect health and vigor. <i>Shak<i>.</cd> -- <col>To let blood</col>. <cd>See under <er>Let</er>.</cd> -- <col>Prince of the blood</col>, <cd>the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled <i>princes of the blood royal<i>; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are <i>princesses of the blood royal<i>.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Blood</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blooded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blooding</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To bleed.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>