blood
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.countablehistoricaluncountable
2. (medicine, informal, countable) A blood test or blood sample.Examples: "When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all."countableinformal
3. (poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.Examples: "He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes."countablepoeticuncountable
4. (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.Examples: "Seest thou not[…]how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?"; "[…] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]"Synonyms: fop, popinjay, barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knightcountableobsoleteuncountable
5. (figurative) Bloodshed.Examples: "They came looking for blood."; "Our Father’s Death Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood."; "Under Henry III. Amboise ceased to be a slaughter-house, as in the preceding reign, but it remained a sort of state prison. It is related that Anne d'Este of Ferrara, wife of Duc de Guise, while assisting once at a series of executions out of the windows of the castle with Catherine de Medicis, suddenly overcome by the horror of the spectacle, turned away, exclaiming passionately, "Ah Madame! how all this blood calls out for blood! what vengeance is being prepared! May God have pity on your sons and on mine!""countablefigurativelyuncountable
6. (especially African-American Vernacular) A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.Examples: "The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him fall, Adderly damning him for having blooded his wastecoat […]"transitive
2. (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.Examples: "On Sᵗ Stephens day the Farrier came constantly and blouded all the Cart-horses."; "Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention."; "She had been blooded, he said, 12 times in this last fortnight, and had lost 75 ounces of blood, besides undergoing blistering,and other discipline."historical
3. (transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.transitive
4. (transitive, obsolete) To make eager for bloodshed or combat; to incite or enrage against.obsoletetransitive
Definition source: Wiktionary