Dictionary: BLOOD-BOLT'ER-ED – BLOOD'-ROOT

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BLOOD-BOLT'ER-ED, a. [blood and bolter.]

Sprinkled with blood. [Not used.] – Macbeth.

BLOOD'-BROTH-ER, n.

Brother by blood or birth.

BLOOD'-COL-OR-ED, a.

Having the color of blood.

BLOOD-CON-SUM'ING, a.

Wasting the blood. – Shake.

BLOOD'-DRENCH-ED, a.

Drenched in blood.

BLOOD'-DRUNK, a.

Drunk with blood. – More.

BLOOD'-DY-ED, a.

Dyed with blood.

BLOOD'ED, pp.

Bled; stained with blood; inured to blood.

BLOOD'-FLOW-ER, n. [blood and flower.]

Hæmanthus, a genus of plants, natives of the Cape of Good Hope. – Encyc.

BLOOD-FRO'ZEN, a.

Having the blood chilled. – Spenser.

BLOOD-GUILT'I-NESS, a. [blood and guilt.]

The guilt or crime of shedding blood. – Ps. li.

BLOOD'HOT, a. [blood and hot.]

As warm as blood in its natural temperature.

BLOOD'-HOUND, n. [blood and hound.]

A species of Canis or dog, with long smooth and pendulous ears, remarkable for the acuteness of its smell, and employed to recover game which has escaped wounded from the hunter, by tracing the lost animal by the blood it had spilt; whence the name of the dog. – Encyc.

BLOOD'I-LY, adv.

In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood. – Shak.

BLOOD'I-NESS, n.

The state of being bloody; disposition to shed blood.

BLOOD'ING, ppr.

Letting blood; staining with blood; inuring to blood, as a hound.

BLOOD'LESS, a.

  1. Without blood; dead.
  2. Without shedding of blood or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. – Shak. Waller.
  3. Without spirit or activity. – Shak.

BLOOD'LESS-LY, adv.

Without bloodshed.

BLOOD'LET, v.t.

To bleed; to let blood. – Arbuthnot.

BLOOD'LET-TER, n.

One who lets blood, as in diseases; a phlebotomist. – Wiseman.

BLOOD'LET-TING, n. [blood and let.]

The act of letting blood, or bleeding by opening a vein.

BLOOD'-MARK-ED, a.

Marked with blood.

BLOOD'PUD-DING, n. [blood and pudding.]

A pudding made with blood and other materials.

BLOOD'-RED, n.

Red as blood.

BLOOD'-ROOT, n.

A plant so named from its color; a species of Sanguinaria, called also Puccoon, Turmeric, and Red root. – Bigelow.