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bloodshot, a. and n.|ˈblʌdʃɒt|
[Shorter form of blood-shotten (shot being the later form of the pa. pple.).]
A. adj.
1. Of the eye: Over-shot or suffused with blood; having the exposed part of the eyeball more or less tinged with blood from inflammation of the blood-vessels of the conjunctiva.
[1552Huloet, Bloudeshot in the eye.] a1618Raleigh Rem. (1664) 124 Those whose Eyes are blood-shot. a1679T. Goodwin Wks. (1865) X. 149 As we say of the eye that it is blood-shot, so we may of the heart that it is sin-shot. 1720Gay Poems (1745) I. 44 Pale cheeks and blood-shot eyes her grief express. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 110 His eyes were bloodshot; his cheeks pale and livid.
2. fig. and transf.
Cf. bloodshot v. quot. 1593.
1851Thackeray Eng. Hum. i. (1858) 43 What fever was boiling in him, that he should see all the world blood-shot? 1879Q. Rev. Apr. 412 The papal scare assumed a novel and a bloodshot hue.
†B. n. [The adj. used absolutely.] Obs.
†1. An effusion of blood, resulting from inflammation of the conjunctiva of the eye.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 582 Very profitable for the bleardness or bloud-shot of the eyes. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. i. lii. 128 Ophtalmia, Inflamation of the Eyes, is that which is called by some Blood-shot.
†2. An effusion of blood in any other part. Obs.
1611Cotgr., Engeleure, a chilblane; or, the bloud-shot which cold settles, and congeales, vpon the fingers. |