[f. BLOOD v.]
1. The letting of blood, bleeding; wounding with loss of blood.
1597. Lowe, Chyrurg. (1634), 369. Blouding, which the Greekes call Phlebotomia.
1651. Wittie, trans. Primrose’s Pop. Err., IV. 255. Bloodding is never good for a Flegmatick man.
1741. Monro, Anat. (ed. 3), 68. Surgeons … trust to the Blooding.
1852. G. P. R. James, Pequinillo, I. 97. The young baronet … received, himself, a far more severe blooding.
attrib. 1685. Lond. Gaz., No. 2079/4. A Chesnut Mare … with a swelling on her neck, about her blooding place.
2. The action of giving hounds a first taste of and appetite for blood (see BLOOD v. 3).
1875. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. II. iv. § 5. 175. The necessity for blooding the hounds is the … most immediate object of cub-hunting.
1875. Whyte-Melville, Katerfelto, xxv. 273. Shame!… that two such noble riders should dispute about the honour of blooding a pack of hounds!
