Blood sb.

Forms: 1 blód, 2–5 blod (ō), 4–6 blode, 4– blood. Also 4 blodde, 5 bloode, 6–7 bloude, 6–8 bloud, 6 bludde, blud; Sc. 4–6 blud, 5–8 blude, 8–9 bluid, Sc. n.e. dial. bleid, bleed. [Com. Teut.: OE. blód = OFris., OS. blôd (LG. blôd, Du. bloed), OHG. blôt, bluot (mod.Ger. blut), ON. blóð (Sw., Da. blod), Goth. blôþ:—OTeut. *blôdo(m, answering to an Aryan type *bhlātó(m, not found with a suitable sense outside Teutonic, there being no general Aryan name for ‘blood’; doubtfully referred to verbal root blō- ‘blow, bloom,’ which suits the form, but is less certain as to the sense. Like some other words in OE. long ó, blood has undergone more than the normal phonetic change; this would have left it (blūd), rhyming with food, wooed; early in 16th c. the vowel was shortened (blud, blud), as in good, wood, and this subsequently changed to v (blvd), as in flood and Sc. wud = wood, etc.]

  I.  Literally.

  1.  prop. The red liquid circulating in the arteries and veins of man and the higher animals, by which the tissues are constantly nourished and renewed; also (by later extension) the corresponding liquid, colored or colorless, in animals of lower organization.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., John vi. 55. Min blod is drinc.

a. 1100.  O. E. Chron., an. 1012. His haliʓe blod on ða eorðan feoll.

c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 187. Þi blod isched on þe rode.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 9999. It es rede als ani blod.

c. 1360.  Song Mercy, in E. E. P. (1862), 120. Myn herte blood . ran from me doun.

c. 1440.  Promp. Parv., 40. Blode.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 35. Blude.

1538.  Wriothesley, Chron. (1875), I. 90. Yt was no bloude.

1563.  Homilies, II. Rebellion, I. (1859), 558. No shedder of our bloods.

1580.  Baret, Alv., B 840. Bludde, sanguis.

1595.  Shaks., John, II. i. 48. We shall repent each drop of bloud.

1611.  Bible, Lev. xvii. 14. Ye shall not eat the blood of no maner of flesh: for the life of all flesh is the blood thereof.

1654.  Trapp, Comm. Ps. iv. 3. The bloud of a Swine might not be offered in Sacrifices.

1711.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4793/1. On the 16th the Blood of St. Januarius was exposed as usually.

1786.  Burns, Wks., III. 21. But feels his heart’s bluid rising hot.

1861.  Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. I. 38. The blood, or nutrient fluid, is a liquid of a more or less intense red … at other times it is almost colourless, as in most of the invertebrated animals.

  b.  Flesh and blood: the distinctive characteristics of the animal body; hence = ‘humanity’ as opposed to ‘deity or disembodied spirit.’ See FLESH.

  † c.  To the blood: through the outer skin, ‘to the quick,’ till the blood flows; also fig. Obs.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 16230. I rede men … bete him to þe blod.

1662.  Pepys, Diary, 10 Oct. I could not get on my boots, which vexed me to the blood.

  † d.  To let blood (in Surgery): to open a vein so as to let blood flow from the body; to bleed; also transf. to shed the blood of, to put to death. With indirect passive, ‘he was let blood.’ arch.

c. 1000.  Sax. Leechd., III. 184. Mona se ðridda … nis na god mona blod lætan.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 35. To latt Blude, fleobotomare.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 107 b. Spared not to suffer hym selfe to be let blode.

1588.  Shaks., L. L. L., II. i. 186. Is the soule sicke?… Alacke, let it bloud. Ibid. (1594), Rich. III., III. i. 180. His ancient Knot of dangerous Aduersaries To morrow are let blood at Pomfret Castle.

1614.  Markham, Cheap Husb., I. i. (1668), 7. It is good whilst a horse is in youth … to let him blood twice in the year.

1679.  Jesuites Ghostly Ways, 7. She was the next morning early to be let blood.

1725.  Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Garden, Let them Blood in the Neck-Vein.

c. 1819.  Keats, Ode to Fanny, 1. Physician Nature! let my spirit blood! O ease my heart of verse and let me rest.

  e.  Formerly used in oaths and forcible ejaculations, as God’s blood! Christ’s blood! ’S blood! and Blood! (cf. ’s wounds, ZOUNDS.)

a. 1541.  Wyatt, Defence, Wks. (1861), Pref. 39. God’s blood, the King set me in the Tower.

c. 1590.  Marlowe, Faust (2nd vers.), 1028. Blood, he speaks terribly!

1599.  Shaks., Hen. V., IV. viii. 10. ’Sblud, an arrant Traytor as any es in the Vniuersall World.

1607.  Heywood, Wom. Kilde, Wks. 1874, II. 119. Sblood sir I loue you.

1762.  Sterne, Tr. Shandy, V. xxi. 89. Blood an ’ounds, shouted the corporal.

1822.  Byron, Juan, VIII. i. Oh blood and thunder! and oh blood and wounds! These are but vulgar oaths.

  2.  fig. and transf. Applied, always with conscious reference to prec., to liquids or juices in some way resembling or suggesting it, as a. to a blood-like juice; b. poet. to the water of a river personified; c. by partially scientific analogy, to the sap of plants.

1382.  Wyclif, Gen. xlix. 11. He shal wasshe … in blood of a grape his mantil.

1607.  Shaks., Timon, IV. iii. 432. Go, sucke the subtle blood o’ th’ Grape.

1807.  J. E. Smith, Phys. Bot., 45. It [the sap] is really the blood of the plant, by which its whole body is nourished.

1842.  C. Johnson, Farmer’s Cycl., s.v. Aortal, The elaborated juice or blood of plants.

1854.  B. Taylor, Poems Orient (1866), 138. I from the flood Of his own brown blood will drink to the glory of ancient Nilus! Ibid., 162. Golden blood of Lebanon.

  3.  Blood shed; hence, bloodshed, shedding of blood; taking of life, manslaughter, murder, death.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Gen. iv. 10. Ðines broðor blod clypað up to me of eorðan.

1382.  Wyclif, Isa. i. 15. Ȝoure hondis ben ful of blod.

1593.  Hooker, Eccl. Pol., Pref. ii. § 5. Either my blood or banishment shall sign it.

a. 1604.  Hanmer, Chron. Irel. (1633), 122. Bent to blood and villany.

1609.  Bible (Douay), Nahum iii. 1. Wo to thee ô citie of blouds.

a. 1639.  W. Whateley, Prototypes, II. xxix. (1640), 144. Beware of Blouds.

1648.  Resol. Officers of Parl. Army. That it is our duty … to call Charles Stuart, that man of blood, to an account for that blood he has shed … in these poor nations.

1711.  Addison, Spect., No. 99, ¶ 7. An Affront that nothing but Blood can expiate.

1866.  Felton, Anc. & Mod. Gr., I. xi. 205. Then blood doth blood Demand.

1878.  Morley, Crit. Misc. (1886), I. 107. The true inquisitor is a creature of policy, not a man of blood by taste.

  b.  Often used in the Bible and theological language for blood shed in sacrifice; esp. the atoning sacrifice of Christ.

c. 1000.  Ælfric, Exod. xxiv. 8. Þis ys þære treowðe blod þe Drihten eow behet be eallon þison spræcon.

1382.  Wyclif, Ex. xxiv. 8. This is the blood of the boond of pees, that the Lord couenauntide with ȝow [1611 the blood of the Couenant]. Ibid. (1382), Ephes. ii. 13. Ȝe that weren sum tyme ferr, ben maad nyȝ in the blood of Crist [1611 by the blood of Christ].

1644.  Direct. Publ. Worship, 26. The new Testament in the bloud of Christ.

1842.  Chalmers, Lect. Romans, lxxix. The sin … now washed away by the blood of a satisfying expiation.

  c.  The guilt or responsibility of bloodshed.

c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxvii. 25. Sy hys blod ofer us, and ofer ure bearn.

1382.  Wyclif, Lev. xx. 11. Thurȝ deth dien thei bothe; the blood of hem be vpon hem.

1611.  Bible, Matt. xxvii. 25. His blood be on vs, and on our children! Ibid., Josh. ii. 19. His blood shalbe vpon his head, and we will bee guiltlesse.

  II.  Properties, attributes, and states of body or feeling connoted by blood. (Often derived from earlier superficial or erroneous notions of its character and action.)

  † 4.  The vital fluid; hence, the vital principle, that upon which life depends; life. † b. For the blood of him: for the life of him, though his life were involved. Obs.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 21462. His blod to sell.

1535.  Coverdale, Ps. lxxi. [lxxii.] 14. Deare shal their bloude be in his sight.

1592.  Shaks., Rom. & Jul., III. i. 188. He slew Mercutio, Who now the price of his deare blood doth owe.

1679.  Trial Wakeman, 83. These mens Bloods are at stake.

1694.  R. L’Estrange, Fables, 12. A Royston Crow … could not for his blood break the shell.

1734.  trans. Rollin’s Anc. Hist. (1827), VI. xv. § 18. 299. This silver was no other than the blood of nations.

1740.  Christmas Entertainm., v. (1884), 51. He could not get over the Stile for the Blood of him.

  5.  The supposed seat of emotion, passion; as in ‘it stirs the blood,’ ‘it makes the blood creep’ or ‘run cold,’ ‘his blood is up,’ ‘my blood boils’; whence, Passion, temper, mood, disposition; emphatically, high temper, mettle; anger. Very frequent in Shakespeare: now chiefly in certain phrases, as To breed bad or ill blood: to stir up strife, cause ill-feeling. In cold blood: not in the heat of passion, deliberately.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 5054. Quen þe tan þe toþer sei Na wight moght þair blodes lei.

a. 1330.  Otuel, 70. Tydinges … Þat amoeuede al here blod.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 37 b. Theyr blode and imaginacyon is sore troubled.

1596.  Shaks., Merch. V., I. ii. 20. The braine may deuise lawes for the blood, but a hot temper leapes ore a colde decree. Ibid. (1597), 2 Hen. IV., IV. iv. 38. When you perceiue his blood enclin’d to mirth. Ibid. (1605), Lear, IV. ii. 64. Were’t my fitness To let these hands obey my blood.

1626.  Massinger, Rom. Actor, IV. ii. Carry her to her chamber … till in cooler blood I shall determine of her.

1646.  Buck, Rich. III., II. 61. High in bloud and anger.

1704.  Swift, Batt. Bks. (1711), 232. Hot words passed … and ill Blood was plentifully bred.

1787.  T. Jefferson, Corr. (1830), 273. It would not excite ill blood in me.

1823.  Lamb, Elia, Poor Relat. Bad blood [was] bred.

1868.  Freeman, Norm. Conq. (1876), II. viii. 271. The taking away of human life in cold blood.

1879.  Froude, Cæsar, vii. 65. The blood of the people was up.

  6.  The supposed seat of animal or sensual appetite; hence, the fleshly nature of man.

1597.  Shaks., Lover’s Compl., 162. Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood, That we must curb it upon others proof. Ibid. (1610), Temp., IV. i. 53. The strongest oathes, are straw To th’ fire ith’ blood.

  7.  Hunting phrase, In blood: in full vigor, full of life. Out of blood: not vigorous, lifeless. (As applied to hounds the expression refers perhaps to the tasting of blood.)

1588.  Shaks., L. L. L., IV. ii. 3. The Deare was … sanguis in blood, ripe as a Pomwater. Ibid. (1596), 1 Hen. IV., IV. ii. 48. If we be English Deere, be then in blood.

1781.  P. Beckford, Hunting (1802), 308. When hounds are out of blood, there is a kind of evil genius attending all that they do … while a pack of fox-hounds well in blood, like troops flushed with conquest, are not easily withstood.

  III.  Race and kindred as connoted by blood.

  8.  Blood is popularly treated as the typical part of the body which children inherit from their parents and ancestors; hence that of parents and children, and of the members of a family or race, is spoken of as identical, and as being distinct from that of other families or races.

  Blue blood: that which flows in the veins of old and aristocratic families, a transl. of the Spanish sangre azul attributed to some of the oldest and proudest families of Castile, who claimed never to have been contaminated by Moorish, Jewish, or other foreign admixture; the expression probably originated in the blueness of the veins of people of fair complexion as compared with those of dark skin. Fresh blood: the introduction in breeding of a new strain or stock not related by blood to the family; fig. new members or elements, with new ideas and experiences, admitted to a society or organization.

1377.  Langl., P. Pl., B. XI. 193. For alle are we crystes creatures … And bretheren as of o blode.

c. 1440.  Gesta Rom., I. xlii. 141. The othir too bethe bastardes, and not of his blode.

1543.  Earl of Angus, Lett., in Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), III. 8, note. Considering the proximite of blude that was betwix us.

1608.  Yorksh. Trag., I. ii. 199. You are a gentleman by many bloods.

1611.  Bible, Acts xvii. 26. [God] hath made of one blood all nations of men.

a. 1631.  Donne, Poems (1658), 1. And in this flea our two blouds mingled be.

1734.  Pope, Ess. Man, IV. 201. Your antient but ignoble blood Has crept thro’ Scoundrels ever since the Flood.

1768.  Blackstone, Comm., II. 203. So many different bloods is a man said to contain in his veins, as he hath lineal ancestors.

1776.  Gibbon, Decl. & F., I. 34. The pure blood of the ancient citizens.

1834.  Mar. Edgeworth, Helen, xv. (D.). One [officer] … from Spain, of high rank and birth, of the sangre azul, the blue blood.

1838.  Arnold, Hist. Rome, I. ii. 25. A mixed race in which other blood was largely mixed with that of the Latins.

1879.  Froude, Cæsar, xi. 120. A young nobleman of the bluest blood.

Mod.  You want some fresh blood to give new life and activity to your society.

  9.  Hence, Blood-relationship, and esp. parentage, lineage, descent; also in a wider sense: Family, kin, race, stock, nationality. Blood royal or the blood: royal race or family.

  Whole blood: race or relationship by both father and mother, as distinguished from that of half blood, relationship by one parent only. Hence concr. half-blood: one whose blood is half that of one race and half that of another, e.g., the offspring of a European and an Indian.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 1451. He was bigeten of kinde blod.

c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 6226. His brother of blud.

c. 1430.  Syr Tryam., 430. Sche was of gentylle blode.

1513.  More, Edw. V. (1641), 5. The Queene or the Nobles of her Bloud.

1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XI. lxvii. (1612), 284. This Ladie also of the blood, and heire vn to her father, A mightie Prince.

1605.  Verstegan, Dec. Intell., Ded. Your Maiestie is descended of the chiefest bloud Royall of our antient English-Saxon Kings.

1650.  R. Stapylton, Strada’s Low-C. Wars, III. 6. Anthony of Bourbon … being the first Prince of the bloud.

1697.  Potter, Antiq. Greece, I. viii. (1715), 40. The distinction … between those of the whole, and those of the half Blood of Athens.

1798.  Bay, Amer. Law Rep. (1809), I. 109. Covenant to stand seised cannot be supported except by consideration of blood.

1807.  Crabbe, Par. Reg., III. 528. They proved the blood, but were refused the land.

1810.  Colebrooke, Hindu Law Inherit., 180. The distinction regarding the whole and the half blood is contradicted [etc.].

1820.  Scott, Monast., xiii. The old proverb … ‘Gentle deed Makes gentle bleid’ (with play on sense 1).

Proverb.  Blood is thicker than water.

  10.  concr. Persons of any specified ‘blood’ or family collectively; blood-relations, kindred, family, race.

1382.  Wyclif, Sel. Wks., III. 515. Alle lordis and ladies and here blod and affinite.

1413.  Lydg., Pylgr. Sowle, IV. xxxi. (1483), 80. His kynrede that is the royal blood of the reame.

1475.  Bk. Noblesse, 2. Arthur, king of the Breton bloode.

1595.  Shaks., John, III. i. 301. Daul. Father, to Armes! Blanch. Vpon thy wedding day? Against the blood that thou hast married?

a. 1649.  Drumm. of Hawth., Hist. Scot. (1655), 2. He being now matched with the Royall Blood of England in Marriage.

1681.  Dryden, Abs. & Achit., 641. By that one Deed Enobles all his Blood.

1838.  Arnold, Hist. Rome, I. 107. He [Brutus] had loved justice more than his own blood.

1884.  W. C. Smith, Kildrostan, 66. Your ancestors were … mated with the best blood of the land.

  † b.  A family descended from a common ancestor; a clan or sept. Obs.

1612.  Davies, Why Ireland (1787), 79. Five principal bloods, or septs, of the Irish, were by special grace enfranchised.

  c.  To run in the (formerly a) blood: i.e., in a family or race.

1621.  Sanderson, Serm., I. 178. Tempers of the mind and affections become hereditary, and (as we say) run in a blood.

1641.  Milton, Ch. Govt., iv. Wks. (1851), 112. Unlesse we shall choose our Prelats only out of the Nobility, and let them runne in a blood.

a. 1703.  Burkitt, On N. T., Matt. xiv. 5. Cruelty runs in a blood.

1774.  Sheridan, Rivals, IV. ii. Tell her ’tis all our ways—it runs in the blood of our family.

  11.  More particularly: Offspring, child, near relative, one dear as one’s own offspring. Formerly in sing., with pl. bloods.

c. 1374.  Chaucer, Troylus, II. 545. Now beth nought wroth, my blode, my nece.

1525.  Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. ccxlii. [ccxxxviii.] 748. To se suche difference within y^e realme, and bytwene his nephues and blode.

1682.  Dryden, Mac Fl., 166. Thou art my blood where Jonson has no part.

1741.  H. Walpole, Corr., I. 99. I have so many cousins, and uncles, and aunts and bloods that grow in Norfolk.

  b.  (Own) flesh and blood: near kindred, children, brothers and sisters. See FLESH.

  12.  Blood worth mention, good blood; good parentage or stock. (Cf. BIRTH sb.¹ 5 b.) a. Of human beings: Noble or gentle birth, good family.

1393.  Gower, Conf., III. 330. They be worthy men of blood.

1526.  Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 92. Bostynge hym selfe of his auncestres and kynrede, or of his rychesse or blode.

1642.  Fuller, Holy & Prof. St., V. xix. 436. Others were upstarts, men of no bloud.

1789.  Mrs. Piozzi, Journ. France & It., I. Blood enjoys a thousand exclusive privileges.

1855.  Macaulay, Hist. Eng., III. 209. The highest pride of blood.

1860.  Emerson, Cond. Life, v. (1861), 104. The obstinate prejudice in favour of blood, which lies at the base of the feudal and monarchical fabrics of the old world.

  b.  Of bred animals: Good breed or pedigree.

1817.  J. Scott, Paris Revisit. (ed. 4), 188. That quality which may be termed the nobility of animal nature; which is called blood, and game, in the inferior creatures.

1846.  Eg.-Warburton, Hunt. Songs, Gros-Veneur In horses and hounds there is nothing like blood.

1859.  Blackw. Mag., Sept., 269/1. The limbs … of a cleanness and beauty of outline enough alone to stamp blood on their possessor.

  c.  attrib. Also ellipt. blood = blood-horse.

1800.  A. Carlyle, Autobiog., iii. (1860), 146. A couple of grooms leading four fine blood-horses.

1818.  Scott, Rob Roy, vii. A bit of a broken-down blood-tit condemned to drag an over-loaded cart.

1824.  W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 228. A politely spoken highwayman on a blood mare.

c. 1865.  R. Sullivan, Lady Betty’s Pocket-bk. A spark of quality, who drove four bloods.

  13.  To restore in or to blood: to readmit to forfeited privileges of birth and rank those who by attainder of themselves or their ancestors lie under sentence of ‘corruption of blood’; see ATTAINDER.

1591.  Shaks., 1 Hen. VI., III. i. 159. Our pleasure is, That Richard be restored to his Blood.

1633.  T. Stafford, Pac. Hib., iii. (1821), 47. His Vncle Sir Edmond is not restored in blood.

1752.  Johnson, Rambl., No. 192, ¶ 7. A kind of restoration to blood after the attainder of trade.

  IV.  A person.

  † 14.  [from 1.] One in whom blood flows, a living being. Obs.

c. 1250.  Gen. & Ex., 1192. A ðhusant plates of siluer god Gaf he sarra ðat faire blod.

a. 1300.  Cursor M., 1055. Þis abel was a blissed blod.

c. 1314.  Guy Warw. (1840), 154. Thou fel treytour, unkinde blod.

1382.  Wyclif, Deut. xxvii. 26. That he smyte the soule of the innocent blood.

  15.  ‘A hot spark, a man of fire’ J.; a ‘buck,’ a ‘fast’ or foppish man, rake, roisterer. [Generally appearing to arise out of sense 5, but in many cases associated with sense 12 as if = aristocratic rowdy.] Obs. in Great Britain except as a reminiscence of last [18th] century.

1562.  Bulleyn, Sicke Men, &c. 73 a. A lustie blood, or a pleasaunte brave young roister.

1595.  Shaks., John, II. i. 278. As many and as well-borne bloods as those.

1622.  Bacon, Hen. VII., 49. The Newes … put diuers Young Bloods into such a furie.

1749.  H. Walpole, Corr. (1837), I. 140. Anecdotes of the doctor’s drinking, who, as the man told us, had been a blood.

1763.  Brit. Mag., IV. 261. The buck and blood [suppose wisdom to consist] in breaking windows and knocking down watchmen.

1774.  Goldsm., Author’s Bed-Ch., 4. The drabs and bloods of Drury-lane.

1824.  W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 341. I now … became a blood upon town.

1848.  Thackeray, Van. Fair, x. A perfect and celebrated ‘blood’ or dandy about town.

1882.  Harper’s Mag., March, 490/2. These vessels [privateers] were commanded and manned by the bloods of the city [of New York].

  b.  ‘Young blood’ no longer implies a rake or ‘fast’ man, but simply a youthful member of a party, who brings to it youthful freshness and vigor; cf. 8.

1862.  Sat. Rev., 8 Feb., 159. To give the young bloods of the present day a notion of what the Northern Circuit was in the year 1825.

1885.  Manch. Exam., 13 July, 5/6. The younger bloods in the Irish party are looking forward with eager delight to the occurrence of a scene.

  V.  Technical senses.

  † 16.  A disease in sheep and in swine. Obs.

1523.  Fitzherb., Husb., § 48. There is a sicknes among shepe … called the bloude.

1741.  Compl. Fam.-Piece, III. 495. The Blood in Sheep … we take to be a sort of Measles or Pox. Ibid., 501. The Blood in Swine, or the Gargut, as some call it.

1787.  Winter, Syst. Husb., 223. A disorder [in swine] generally called (in this part of the country) the blood.

  17.  A commercial name for Red Coral.

1861.  Hulme, trans. Moquin-Tandon, II. III. ii. 88. Five varieties of Coral are known in commerce … 1, the Froth of Blood; 2nd the Flower of Blood; 3rd, 4th, and 5th, Blood of the first, second, and third quality.

  VI.  Comb. and Attrib.

  18.  General combinations (These being formed at will, only a few samples are given): a. attributive, as (sense 1) blood-beat, -circulation, -clot, -corpuscle, -drop, -mark, -spot, -stream; (senses 3, 4) blood-field, -rite, -sacrifice, spirit, -trade, -value; (senses 8, 9) blood-affinity, -bond, -brother, -brotherhood, -descendants, feud, -friend, -kinship, -name. b. objective, with pres. pple., n. of agent or action, as (sense 1) blood-circulating, -spiller, -spilling, -sprinkling, -sweating; (senses 3–4) blood-loving, -offering, -monger, -seller, -wreaker; (sense 5) as blood-curdling, -stirring, hence -stirringness. c. instrumental and locative, as (sense 1) blood-bedabbled, -besprinkled, -bubbling, -discolo(u)red, -drenched, -dyed, -filled, -flecked, -frozen, -gushing, -plashed, -tinctured; (senses 3, 4) blood-bought, -cemented, -defiled, -fired, -polluted. d. parasynthetic and similative, as blood-colo(u)red, -faced, -hued, etc.

1865.  Tylor, Early Hist. Man., x. 278. The seventh degree of *blood-affinity is the limit.

1621.  Quarles, Argalus & P. (1678), 119. She prostrate lay Before their *blood-bedabled feet.

1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., V. i. 117. O *blood-bespotted Neopolitan.

1601.  Yarrington, Two Lament. Traj., II. v. in Bullen, O. Pl., IV. His dissevered *blood-besprinkled lims.

1645.  Rutherford, Tryal & Tri. Faith (1845), 178. *Blood-bonds, nature-relations are mighty.

1779.  Cowper, Hymn, ‘There is a fountain.’ A *blood-bought free reward.

1879.  Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., IV. 668/1. In which [apartment] are located the *blood-circulating organs.

1818.  Carlyle, Sart. Res., III. vii. A *blood-circulation, visible to the eye.

1859.  Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., V. 562/2. The *blood-clot … generally found contained within the ruptured airsac.

1762–71.  H. Walpole, Vertue’s Anecd. Paint. (1786), V. 97. A *blood-coloured ribband with Death’s head, swords, &c.

1593.  Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., III. ii. 61. Might … *blood-consuming sighes recall his Life.

1875.  B. Taylor, Faust, II. III. 171. With *blood-discolored eyes.

1823.  Byron, Island, III. iv. *Blood-drops, sprinkled o’er his yellow hair.

1873.  Symonds, Grk. Poets, vii. 227. Hound not Those *blood-faced, snake-encircled women on me.

1858.  Froude, Hist. Eng., IV. xviii. 8. A *blood-feud, deep and ineffaceable divided the Douglases and the Hamiltons.

1535.  Coverdale, Matt. xxvii. 8. Wherfore the same felde is called the *bloudfelde vnto this daye.

1645.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, II. 9. Though the *blood-fir’d Ruffian, rageing come.

1596.  Spenser, F. Q., I. ix. 25. Yet nathëmore … Could his *blood-frozen heart emboldned bee.

a. 1711.  Ken, Hy. Evang., Poet. Wks. 1721, I. 57. *Blood-gushing Veins.

a. 1849.  J. C. Mangan, Poems (1859), 121. That lone flower, *blood-hued at heart.

1535.  Coverdale, Mark v. 25. There was a woman which has a *bloudeyssue twelue yeares.

1883.  A. Lang, in Contemp. Rev., Sept., 410. Exogamy is the prohibition of marriage within the supposed *blood-kinship, as denoted by the family name.

1827.  Byron, Sardan., I. ii. 238. That *blood-loving beldame, My martial grandam, chaste Semiramis.

1858.  Gladstone, Homer, I. 163. In the fourth and fifth of the divisions in the Trojan Catalogue Homer specifies no *blood-name or name of race whatever.

1725.  Pope, Odyss., I. 40. A *blood-polluted Ghost.

1602.  Warner, Alb. Eng., XI. lxv. 279. Not of the Samoeds … *blood-Rites wil we tarry.

1801.  Moore, Ring, lvi. 221. He saw the *blood-scrawled name.

a. 1674.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., III. XI. 204. They had … terrified the People with *Blood-Spectacles.

1818.  Scott, Rob Roy, xxvi. Honour is a homicide and a *blood-spiller.

1585.  Abp. Sandys, Serm. (1841), 257. We shall behold nothing but rape, spoil, *blood-spilling.

1861.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. cxliv. 128. Keeping down the *blood-spirit unhappily inherent in all mankind.

1860.  G. H. K., Vac. Tour, 118. There is many a broad *blood-spot in your country.

1880.  Saintsbury, in Academy, 4 Dec., 397. This same quality of *blood-stirringness.

c. 1205.  Lay., 28359. Ȝurren þa stanes mid þan *blodstremes.

c. 1240.  Lofsong, in Lamb. Hom., 207. In his *blodswetunge.

1860.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. ci. 2. It is all the same where the war is, so the *blood-trade flourishes.

1880.  Browning, Muleykeh, 9. Ten thousand camels the due, *Blood-value paid perforce for a murder done of old.

1382.  Wyclif, Josh. xx. 5. Whanne the *bloodwreker hym pursue.

  19.  Special comb.: † blood-band, a bandage for stopping bleeding; blood-baptism, in reference to the early Christians, the martyrdom of converts who had not been baptized; blood-bath, ‘a bath in warm blood … supposed to be a very powerful tonic in great debility from long-continued diseases, etc.’ (Syd. Soc. Lex., s.v. Bath); also (as in Ger., Du., Da., Sw.) a wholesale slaughter, a massacre; blood-bay a., a reddish bay (color); † blood-boltered ppl. a., clotted or clogged with blood, esp. having the hair matted with blood; [see BALTER]; † blood-bulk (cf. BULK); † blood-craft, murderous plot; † blood-eyes, blood-shot eyes; blood-fine, a fine paid as whole or part compensation for murder; blood-flower (Bot.), Hæmanthus; blood-frenzy, a frenzy for shedding blood, homicidal mania; blood-hot, excited for bloodshed; † blood-hunter, one who tracks the authors of crimes of blood, one who tracks criminals; † blood-pudding, a black-pudding; blood-rain, rain that has acquired a red color; also an appearance produced by the rapid growth of a minute plant which has been referred to the Algæ, Palmella prodigiosa (Treas. Bot.); blood-raw a., (of meat) so lightly cooked that the blood remains red and liquid; blood-ripe a., (of fruit) so ripe that the juice has become blood-colored, hence blood-ripeness; † blood-run a., bloodshot; blood-sausage, a black-pudding; † blood-shrunk a., having the blood or vital principle dried up, withered; blood-stick (see quot.); blood-tree (Bot.), Croton gossypiifolium; blood-vein, a kind of moth (Bradyepetes amataria); † blood-weed (Bot.), a species of Polygonum; † blood-wipe, a wound, also a kind of small club or truncheon; blood-wood; a name applied to several foreign trees, e.g., in Jamaica Gordonia hæmatoxylon, in Norfolk Island Baloghia lucida, in Australia various species of Eucalyptus, in India Lagerstrœmia reginæ; blood-worthy a., sufficient to warrant bloodshed; blood-wound, a wound from which blood flows, as distinguished from one in which the skin is not broken.

a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 420. Ne *blod-bendes of seolke.

a. 1400[?].  Morte Arth., 2576. Us bus have a blodebande.

1837.  Carlyle, Fr. Rev., I. VI. iii. 277. A Great Personage worn out by debauchery was believed to be in want of *Blood-baths.

1867.  Freeman, Norm. Conq., I. vi. 454. The marriages of Emma would seem to have required a *blood-bath as their necessary attendant.

1709.  Lond. Gaz., No. 4521/4. Stoln … a *blood-bay Mare.

1605.  Shaks., Macb., IV. i. 123. Now I see ’tis true, For the *Blood-bolter’d Banquo smiles vpon me.

1848.  Miller, First Impr., ii. (1857), 23. The old blood-boltered barons.

1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 711/1. His *bloudbulke was broken by reason they had so vily beaten him and brused him.

1575.  Turberv., Bk. Venerie, 129. Up to the mydryffe between the Bloudboulke and the sides.

1561.  Daus, trans. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573), 225 b. Fornications, wonderful surfetting, *bloudcraftes and counselles.

1607.  Topsell, Serpents, 695. An Eye-salve against the whitenesse and *bloud-eyes.

1851.  Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 489. The Were or *bloodfine for every Dane who had been killed.

1880.  Burton, Reign Q. Anne, III. xv. 80. The *blood-frenzy called in the East running amuck.

1865.  Kingsley, Herew., xviii. 227. He would not allow his men to enter the city while they were *bloodhot.

1794.  Godwin, Cal. Williams, 262. The sordid and mechanical occupation of a *blood-hunter.

1583.  Plat, Divers New Exper. (1594), 13. Boile this bloud … until it come to the nature and shape of a *bloudpudding.

1741.  Richardson, Pamela, I. 94. I hope to make my hands as red as a Blood-pudden.

1866.  Berkeley, in Treas. Bot., I. 150. One curious point about the fungous *Bloodrain … when cultivated on rice paste.

1882.  Geikie, Text-bk. Geol., III. II. i. § 2. 326. Rain falling through such a dust-cloud mixes with it, and … is popularly called *blood-rain.

c. 1590.  Marlowe, Faust., iv. 9. He would give his soul to the devil for a shoulder of mutton though it were *blood-raw.

1871.  M. Collins, Mrq. & Merch., III. xi. 249. An aged mulberry-tree … overladen with *blood-ripe fruit.

1826.  E. Irving, Babylon, II. 325. The vine of the earth, which hath brought her grapes to *blood-ripeness.

a. 1674.  Clarendon, Hist. Reb., II. VII. 342. When the eyes of the mind, no more *blood-run with passion, did discern things right.

1634.  Ford, Perkin Warb., I. i. (1839), 99. Sending to this *blood-shrunk commonwealth A new soul.

1872.  Youatt, Horse, xxii. 458. A *blood-stick—a piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead—is used to strike the fleam into the vein.

1885.  Lady Brassey, The Trades, 112. The *blood-tree … when wounded, sends forth a juice like blood.

1802.  J. Rennie, Butterflies and M., 115. The *Blood Vein … appears at the end of June.

1611.  Cotgr., Playe, a wound, *bloudwipe, sore cut.

1661.  Ray, Itin. (1760), 144. A small Mace for the Water-Bailiff; also another little one called the Blood-wipe, which they use in parting of Frays.

1880.  Silver’s Handbk. Australia, 275. Red mahogany, *bloodwood, and turpentine are both hard and durable.

1828.  Southey, in Q. Rev., XXXVIII. 575. In their opinion, the differences between the Roman Catholic and the Protestant are what they call *bloodworthy.

1841.  Tytler, Hist. Scot. (1864), III. 238. The bodies of both … were unscathed by fire or powder, and … no *blood-wound appeared on either.