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▪ I. bleeding, vbl. n.|ˈbliːdɪŋ|
[f. bleed + -ing1.]
1. a. The flowing or dropping of blood (from a wound, etc.); hæmorrhage.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 849 Thou shalt feele as well the blood of me As thou hast felt the bleeding of Tisbe. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. cxxxvi. (1495) 693 Powder of drye roses staunchyth bledynge at the nose. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 309 Bleeding of the person slaine, at the presence of the murtherer. 1828Scott F.M. Perth (1860) Pref. 15 He..applied some lint to stop the bleeding.
b. Of plants: The emission of sap (from a wound). Also attrib., as in bleeding-season.
1674Grew Anat. Trunks. ii. i. §8 The Bleeding of Plants..properly enough expresses, The eruption of the Sap out of any Vessels. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 161 The Bleeding of the Vine. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 677 The phenomenon known as the ‘bleeding’ of wood cut in the winter.
2. Drawing or ‘letting’ of blood. Also attrib., as bleeding-bowl (see quot. 1916), bleeding-knife.
c1440Promp. Parv. 38 Bledynge, sanguinacio, fleobotomia. Ibid. 39 Bledynge yryn, fleobotomium. 1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. M j, What is bledyng or blode lettynge. 1670Cotton Espernon iii. xii. 647 His Physician resolv'd upon a Bleeding. c1783W. Stark in Med. Commun. I. 383 Bleeding is the appropriated remedy for a cough. 1837Hogg Ettr. Shep. Tales III. 35 The butcher came up with his bleeding-knife. 1911C. J. Jackson Hist. Eng. Plate I. i. ix. 264 Surgeon's bleeding-bowl, with pierced handle. 1916Connoisseur Dec. 229/2 The so-called Bleeding Bowl, or Cupping Dish... Such bowls were used by surgeons when bleeding their patients.
fig.1796Southey Lett. Spain & Port. 427 This bleeding is more dreadful, because the Holy Office is the bleeder. 1850Alison Hist. Europe II. viii. §54 In the language of the times..a new bleeding was required for the state.
3. The draining of liquid, gas, etc., through a cock, valve, or the like (see bleed v. 14). Also attrib.
1889[see bleed v. 14]. 1928Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 5 Where turbine ‘bleeding’ is resorted to for feed heating. 1959Engineering 2 Jan. 26/3 The bleeding of air from the compressor to cool the blades. Ibid. 27 Feb. 263/3 The hydraulic system is..provided with bleeding screws to allow the escape of air enclosures.
4. a. Of a dye: see bleed v. 2 b.
1893[see bleed v. 2 b]. 1959Which? Oct. 129/2 The washed samples [of carpet] were then examined for any changes in colour and in particular for any bleeding of colours in the patterned sample.
b. The penetration of a coat of paint or the like by colour or other substance from an underlying surface.
1888[see bleed v. 2 c]. 1926Paint, Oil & Chem. Rev. 25 Nov. 14/1 Bleeding, a defect of pigments by which they slowly soak into or penetrate an overlying coat, or the dissolving of a pigment in the vehicle. 1951R. Mayer Artist's Hand-Bk. ii. 91 An obstacle in the way of the adoption of coal tar colours of really superior permanence to light, is that most of them have the property of bleeding or striking through when used with oil or oily mediums.
c. (See quots.)
1914H. P. Boulnois Gloss. Road Terms 14 Bleeding, the exudation of pitch or bitumen from the road surface or from the prepared material. 1954Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 30 Bleeding, a road condition in which free binder exudes in liquid form from the surface of a bituminous..road in hot weather. Ibid. 36 Bleeding, the formation of a thin layer of water on the exposed surface of concrete during the finishing processes.
▪ II. bleeding, ppl. a.
[f. bleed + -ing2.]
1. a. Losing or emitting blood, or transf. sap.
a1225Ancr. R. 118 Bledinde mon is grislich. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. v. xxii. (1495) 129 A bledynge wounde. 1703Rowe Ulysses iv. i. 1706 That poor bleeding King. 1787Winter Syst. Husb. 45 Thistles..cut close to the ground, are destroyed by scattering soaper's ashes over the bleeding stumps.
b. Running or suffused with blood.
c1305Leg. Rood (1871) 133 Bounden . in bledyng bondes. 1595Shakes. John ii. i. 304 Whose sonnes lye scattered on the bleeding ground.
2. fig.
a. Full of anguish from suffering, deep pity, or compassion.
1596Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 38 These bleeding words she gan to say. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xlii. §2 With bleeding hearts. 1628Feltham Resolves i. lxi. (1647) 189 Calamities that challenge a bleeding eye. 1687N. N. Old Popery, Compassionate and Bleeding Thoughts. 1713Guardian No. 31 (1756) I. 134 All those good-natured offices that could have been expected from the most bleeding pity.
b. metaphor. Obs.
1597Shakes. Lover's Compl. 153 Experience for me many bulwarkes builded Of proofs new bleeding. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. I. v. 387 Cruelty..of which they every day received fresh and bleeding evidence.
3. fig. and transf. Said of nations devastated by war or the like, etc. Also, as in bleed 5 b.
1668Dryden Even. Love iv. i, This is the Folly of a bleeding Gamester. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. I. v. 537 The relief of bleeding and miserable Ireland. 1689Luttrell Brief Rel. (1857) I. 503 The bleeding condition of Ireland. 1863M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer's Greece I. i. 9 Greece herself, bleeding and exhausted after her efforts in the War of Liberation.
4. quasi-adv. (Cf. 2 b.)
1607Shakes. Timon i. ii. 80 So they were bleeding new my Lord, there's no meet like 'em.
5. Comb. bleeding heart, (a) the popular name for several plants; e.g. the Wallflower (Cheiranthus Cheiri), the Aristotelia peduncularis, Colocasia esculenta of the Sandwich Islands, Dicentra formosa, and a variety of Cherry (Miller); (b) fig. an excessively soft-hearted or sympathetic person (colloq.); also attrib.; bleeding root = blood-root; bleeding tooth, the shell of a gastropod mollusc, Nerita peloronta, which has a red mark on the columella tooth.
1691Evelyn Kal. Hort. (ed. 8) 171 Cherries... Bleeding Heart. 1803[see heart n. 30]. 1825Britton Beauties of Wilts. III. 371 Bleeding-heart, the wall-flower. 1887Cent. Mag. July 325 The white-hearts (related to the bleeding-hearts of the gardens, and absurdly called ‘Dutchman's breeches’). 1916D. H. Lawrence Amores 130 The tender, mild Flowers of the bleeding-heart. 1958J. Bingham Murder Plan Six iii. 74 You want to think straight, Victor. You want to control this bleeding-heart trouble of yours. 1960‘I. T. Ross’ Murder out of School vi. 68 A lot of bleeding-hearts got the idea they knew about everything.
1714Phil. Trans. XXIX. 64 The root call'd the Bleeding Root, curing the Jaundies. 1863Prior Plant-n. 24.
1881Jrnl. Conchology III. 165, I did not find the ‘Bleeding Tooth’ very common at Key West. 1954R. T. Abbott Amer. Seashells 128 Nerita peloronta Linné. Bleeding Tooth. Southeast Florida, Bermuda and the West Indies.
6. A substitute for bloody a. 10 (and adv. 2). low slang.
1858Furnivall in Athenæum 24 July 118 Costermongers have lately substituted the participle ‘bleeding’ for the adjective [‘bloody’]. ‘My bleeding barrow’ is the latest phrase in vogue. 1876Besant & Rice Son of Vulcan ii. xxiii, When he isn't up to one dodge he is up to another. You make no bleeding error. 1884Sessions Paper 8 Jan. 325 If you don't bleeding well let me go. 1896A. Morrison Child of Jago i. 4 This is a bleed'n' unsocial sort o' evenin' party. 1922[see blimey int.]. 1967Times 17 Nov. 8/4 Why don't you bleeding do something about it? Ibid., He wants to take bleeding care that light duty work is continuous. |