a. [f. BLOOD v. or sb. + -ED.]

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  † 1.  Stained with blood. Obs.

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c. 1250.  Lay., 26811. Blodede feldes, falewede nebbes.

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1637.  Earl Monm., trans. Malvezzi’s Romulus & Tarquin, 155. Rather to haue his hands blouded than his head crowned.

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  2.  Having (hot, cold, or other) blood.

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1805.  W. Saunders, Min. Waters, 14. Greater … in the warm, than in the cold blooded animals.

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1835.  Marryat, Olla Podr., xiv. Being … all cold-blooded animals.

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  3.  Of horses: Of good breed.

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1858.  Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., I. lxii. 241. A few thoroughly-blooded [horses] of the English breed.

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1858.  O. W. Holmes, Aut. Breakf.-t. (1865), 14. Let me beg you … not to speak of a ‘thorough-bred’ as a ‘blooded’ horse, unless he has been recently phlebotomised.

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1883.  A. S. Hardy, But yet a Woman, 146. He had in his stables all the virtues, blooded animals of the purest race, [etc.].

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