Bloodily
Blood″i‐ly (�), adv. In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.
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Bloodiness
Blood″i‐ness, n. 1. The state of being bloody.2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness.All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature.Holland.
Bloodless
Blood″less, a. [AS. bl�dleás.] 1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold.Dryden.2. Not attended with ...
Bloodlet
Blood″let′ (–lĕt′), v. t. [AS. blōdlǣtan; blōd blood + lǣatan to let.] To bleed; to let blood. Arbuthnot.
Bloodletter
Blood″let′ter (�), n. One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
Bloodletting
Blood″let′ting, n.(Med.) The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; — esp. applied to venesection.
Bloodroot
Blood″root′ (�), n.(Bot.) A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; — called also puccoon, redroot, bloo...
Bloodshed
Blood″shed′ (�), n. [Blood + shed] The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
Bloodshedder
Blood″shed′der (�), n. One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
Bloodshedding
Blood″shed′ding (�), n. Bloodshed. Shak.
Bloodshot
Blood″shot′ (�), a. [Blood + shot, p. p. of shoot to variegate.] Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is infla...
Bloodstick
Blood″stick″ (�), n.(Far.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.
Bloodstone
Blood″stone′ (�), n.(Min.) (a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; — called also heliotrope. (b) Hematite, an ore of iron yieldi...
Bloodstroke
Blood″stroke′ (�), n. [Cf. F. coup de sang.] Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.
Bloodsucker
Blood″suck′er (�), n. 1. (Zoöl.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one gu...
Bloodthirsty
Blood″thirst′y (�), a. Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous. — Blood″thirst′i‐ness (�), n.
Bloodulf
Blood″ulf (�), n.(Zoöl.) The European bullfinch.
Bloodwite
{ Blood″wite′ (�), Blood″wit′ (�), } n. [AS. bl�wīte; bl�d blood, + wīte wite, fine.] (Anc. Law) A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a ri...
Bloodwood
Blood″wood (�), n.(Bot.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is colle...
Bloodwort
Blood″wort′ (�), n.(Bot.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (...
Bloody
Blood″y (�), a. [AS. blōdig.] 1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; ...
Bloody (2)
Blood″y, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Bloodied (�); p. pr. & vb. n.Bloodying.] To stain with blood. Overbury.
Bloody flux
Blood″y flux′ (�). The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
Bloody hand
Blood″y hand′ (�). 1. A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against veniso...
Bloody sweat
Blood″y sweat′ (�). A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
Bloody-minded
Blood″y–mind″ed (�), a. Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
Bloodybones
Blood″y‐bones′ (�), n. A terrible bugbear.