Dictionary entry

Blood (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Blood (�), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Blooded; p. pr. & vb. n.Blooding.] 1. To bleed. Cowper.

2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

Reach out their spears afar,

And blood their points.

Dryden.

3. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

It was most important too that his troops should be blooded.

Macaulay.

4. To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another.

Bacon.