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full-blood, a. and n.
A. adj.
a. Of a brother or sister: Born of the same parents (opposed to half-blood 1. attrib.).
b. Qualifying an ethnic designation: Of pure or unmixed race.
1812Niles' Weekly Reg. II. 408/1 His full blood merino ram lamb. 1850Rep. U.S. Comm. Patents Agric. 1849 88 Sheep..ranging in quality from half to full-blood merino. 1882A. Macfarlane Consanguin. 17 Brother, full-blood = male child of male and female parents. 1888Harper's Mag. Mar. LXXVI. 602 The full-blood [Cherokee] is always present in the national Legislature. 1893Columbus (Ohio) Disp. 2 Oct., His mother [was] a full-blood Potawatomie squaw.
B. n. A pure-bred person or animal.
1846R. B. Sage Scenes Rocky Mts. xx. 166 They [sc. half-breed children] were more beautiful..than the same number of full-bloods,—either of whites or Indians. 1864Ret. Agric. Soc. Maine 9 Those [sheep] exhibited were mostly Spanish Merinos..most full bloods. 1873J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xix. 358 One may travel for days in the Territory, and never see a full-blood. 1888Vermont Agric. Rep. X. 38, I breed Jerseys; have no full-bloods but high grades. 1964Observer 12 Jan. 6/8 Gathering opinion throughout Australia that the nation's 20,000 full-bloods cannot be indefinitely treated as a lesser breed.
Similarly full-ˈblooded a. = full blood, lit. and fig.; also, having plenty of blood. Hence full-ˈbloodedly adv., forcefully, whole-heartedly; full-ˈbloodedness lit. and fig.
1774P. V. Fithian Jrnl. 8 Jan. (1900) I. 89 Balantine, either to shew himself a true full-blooded Buck, or out of mere wantonness..turned the Bones..into many improper and indecent postures. 1786Maryland Jrnl. 31 Mar. (Th.), A number of full-blooded Colts and Fillies. 1801Steele Papers I. 218 The present Secy. altho' a full blooded Yankee, as we call him in these parts, knows the importance of this place. 1810Massachusetts Spy 25 Apr. 3/1 Forty-five full-blooded Merino Sheep. 1825J. Neal Bro. Jonathan II. 68 A full-blooded republican ‘driver’. 1841Catlin N. Amer. Ind. (1844) II. lvii. 220 His general appearance and actions, those of a full-blooded and wild Indian. 1884Century Mag. XXVIII. 42 The full-bloodedness, the large feet and hands. 1894Athenæum 5 May 571/3 His unquestioned ability has not the roundness, the ripeness, the mellow full-bloodedness of the style of ‘The Heptameron’. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Feb. 137/4 The story is full-bloodedly crowded with sudden deaths. 1958Listener 18 Dec. 1050/1 The difficulty of putting Lorca across full-bloodedly. |