Emily Dickinson Lexicon

BLOOD'Y, v.t.

To stain with blood. – Overbury.

BLOOD'Y-EY-ED, a.

Having bloody or cruel eyes.

BLOOD'Y-FAC-ED, a.

Having a bloody face or appearance. – Shak.

BLOOD'Y-FLUX, n. [blood and flux.]

The dysentery, a disease in which the discharges from the bowels have a mixture of blood. – Arbuthnot.

BLOOD'Y-HAND, n. [blood and hand.]

A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. – Ash.

BLOOD'Y-HUNT-ING, a.

Hunting for blood. – Shak.

BLOOD'Y-ING, ppr.

Staining with blood.

BLOOD'Y-MIND-ED, a. [blood and mind.]

Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; barbarous; inclined to shed blood. – Dryden.

BLOOD'Y-RED, a.

Having the color of blood.

BLOOD-Y-SCEP'TER-ED, a.

Having a scepter obtained by blood or slaughter. – Shak. BLOOD'Y-SWEAT, n. [blood and sweat.] A sweat, accompanied by a discharge of blood; also, a disease, called sweating sickness, which formerly prevailed in England and other countries.

BLOOM, n.¹ [Goth. bloma; D. bloem; G. blume; Sw. blomme; Dan. blomster; W. bloden, blawd, from the root of blow; Sax. blowan, contracted from blodan, or blothan. Blossom is a dialectical form of the word, from the same root. See Blossom.]

1. Blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud. While opening blooms diffuse their sweets around. – Pope.
2. The opening of flowers in general; flowers open, or in a state of blossoming; as, the trees are clothed with bloom.
3. The state of youth, resembling that of blossoms; a state of opening manhood, life, beauty, and vigor; a state of health and growth, promising higher perfection; as, the bloom of youth.
4. The blue color upon plums and grapes newly gathered. – Johnson.

BLOOM, n.² [Sax. bloma, a mass or lump; W. plwm; Arm. plom, plowm, or bloum; Fr. plomb; Sp. plomo; It. piombo; L. plumbum, lead, properly a lump.]

A mass of iron that has passed the blomary, or undergone the first hammering.

BLOOM, v.i.

1. To produce or yield blossoms; to flower.
2. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show the beauty of youth; as, blooming graces.

BLOOM, v.t.

To put forth as blossoms. Charitable affection bloomed them. – Hooker. [Not in use.]

BLOOM'ING, ppr.

1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.
2. Thriving in health, beauty and vigor; showing the freshness and beauties of youth. His blooming laurels graced the muse's seat. – Trumbull.

BLOOM'ING-LY, adv.

In a blooming manner.

BLOOM'ING-NESS, n.

State of being blooming.

BLOOM'Y, a.

Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray; bloomy beauties.

BLORE, n. [This is a different orthography of Blare, which see.]

The act of blowing; a blast. [Not used.] – Chapman.

BLOS'SOM, n. [Sax. blosm, blosma, blostm, blostma, and blosan, a blossom; blosmian, blostmian, to blossom; D. bloessem, a blossom; G. blüthe, a blossom; allied perhaps to G. bloss, Dan. blot, naked; G. blössen, Dan. blotter, to uncover; W. bloden, a flower, blodeuaw, to blossom, from blawd, meal, bloom; Gr. βλαστημα, a bud, probably from the same root; Syr. ܒܠܨ blas, to germinate, to flourish, to put forth leaves.]

1. The flower or corol of a plant; a general term, applicable to every species of tree or plant, but more generally used than flower or bloom, when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers, when we speak of shrubs cultivated for ornament; and bloom, in a more general sense, as flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers.
2. This word is used to denote the color of a horse, that has his hair white, but intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; otherwise, peach-colored. – Encyc.

BLOS'SOM, v.i.

1. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.
2. To flourish and prosper. The desert shall blossom as the rose. – Is. xxxv.

BLOS'SOM-ED, v. [pret. of Blossom.]

BLOS'SOM-ING, n.

The blowing or flowering of plants.

BLOS'SOM-ING, ppr.

Putting forth flowers; blowing.

BLOS'SOM-Y, a.

Full of blossoms.