Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BLOOD'-SHA-KEN, a.

Having the blood in commotion. – Jonson.

BLOOD'SHED, n. [blood and shed.]

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; waste of life; the crime of shedding blood. – Spenser.

BLOOD'SHED-DER, n.

One who sheds blood; a murderer.

BLOOD'SHED-DING, n.

The shedding of blood; the crime of shedding blood. – Homilies.

BLOOD'SHOT, a. [blood and shoot.]

Red and inflamed by a turgid state of the blood-vessels, as in diseases of the eye. – Garth.

BLOOD'SNAKE, n.

A species of snake, the Hæmorrhus. – Ash.

BLOOD'-SPAV-IN, n. [blood and spavin.]

A dilatation of the vein that runs along the inside of the hock of a horse, forming a soft swelling. – Encyc.

BLOOD'-SPILL-ING, a.

Shedding blood.

BLOOD'-SPIT-TER, n.

One who spits blood.

BLOOD'-STAIN-ED, a.

Stained with blood; also, guilty of murder.

BLOOD'STONE, n. [blood and stone.]

1. A stone, imagined, if worn as an amulet, to be a good preventive of bleeding at the nose. [See Hematite.]
2. In gem sculpture, a species of heliotrope dotted with spots of jasper. – Elmes.

BLOOD'-SUCK-ER, n. [blood and suck.]

Any animal that sucks blood, as a leech, a fly, &c. A cruel man; a murderer.

BLOOD'-SUCK-ING, a.

That sucks or draws blood. – Shak.

BLOOD'-SWELL-ED, a.

Swelled with blood.

BLOOD'-THIRST-I-NESS, n.

Thirst for shedding blood.

BLOOD'-THIRST-Y, a. [blood and thirst.]

Desirous to shed blood; murderous.

BLOOD'-VES-SEL, n. [blood and vessel.]

Any vessel is which blood circulates in an animal body; an artery or a vein.

BLOOD'-WARM, a.

Warm as blood; lukewarm. – Addison.

BLOOD'-WITE, n. [blood and wite, a fine or penalty.]

In ancient law a fine or amercement, paid as a composition for the shedding of blood.

BLOOD'-WON, a.

Won by shedding blood. – Scott.

BLOOD'-WOOD, n. [blood and wood.]

A name given to log-wood, from its color.

BLOOD'-WORT, n. [blood and wort.]

A plant, a species of Rumex.

BLOOD'-WORTH-Y, a.

Worthy of blood.

BLOOD'Y, a.

1. Stained with blood.
2. Cruel; murderous; given to the shedding of blood; or having a cruel, savage disposition; applied to animals.
3. Attended with bloodshed; marked by cruelty; applied to things; as, a bloody battle.

BLOOD'Y, adv.

Very; as, bloody sick, bloody drunk. [This is very vulgar.]