单词 | bloodshot |
释义 | bloodshotadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of the eye: suffused or streaked with blood; spec. affected with congestion of the conjunctival blood vessels. Also (of a blood vessel, esp. of the conjunctiva): congested with blood (now rare). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bloodshot bloodshota1450 blood-shottenc1450 shottenc1460 sanguinous1490 bloodshed1583 sanguined1700 blood-run1703 blood-discoloured1871 a1450 Late Middle Eng. Treat. on Horses (1978) 89 (MED) His pisse schal be rede & þicke, his eyȝen-webbe blod-schote & wateri. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni sig. a The .xviij. is smytynge vpon the eies, whiche hurteth the eies and syght, for it maketh them bludde shotte, & troubleth ye vissible spirite. a1618 W. Raleigh Remains (1664) 124 Those whose Eyes are blood-shot. a1680 T. Goodwin Wks. (1692) III. i. 137 As we say of the Eye, that it is Bloodshot, so we may of the Heart, that it is Sinshot. 1720 J. Gay Fan ii, in Poems I. 47 Pale cheeks and blood-shot eyes her grief express. 1771 D. Garrick Let. 6 June (1963) II. 744 I am so angry, that I have made one of my Eyes blood shot with staring, & Stretching the Ball. 1793 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 48. 381 Her thick velvet brows overhung a pair of large hazle eyes, the whites of which..were streaked with two or three bloodshot veins. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 110 His eyes were bloodshot; his cheeks pale and livid. 1840 London Med. Gaz. 4 Sept. 919/1 I examined it [sc. the stomach] most minutely, and found not..blood-shot vessels. 1895 Argosy Nov. 109/1 Jack, his fine eyes bloodshot, his slim hands helpless, his life and his vivacity dulled. 1943 D. Gascoyne Poems 1937–42 54 Through the smoke men gaze with bloodshot eyes At the translucent apparition, clad in trembling nascent green. 1981 A. MacLean River of Death (1983) iii. 88 The light of battle was in his truculent and bloodshot eyes. 2004 D. Alper Trading Tatiana xii. 90 Even allowing for the fisheye view, his eye was remarkable. I'd never seen whites so bloodshot. 2. In extended use: that appears as though suffused with blood; streaked with red; intensely red; lurid. Cf. quot. 1593 at bloodshot v. ΚΠ 1639 T. Bancroft Two Bks. Epigrammes & Epit. ii. sig. I1v Heav'ns blood-shot eye winkes close for griefe and dread.] 1651 E. Prestwich in tr. Seneca Hippolitus 66 Those blind Pearles, those bloud-shot rubies in Thine eyes..Are all like jewels in a Dunghill set. 1698 G. Granville Heroick Love 3 A blood-shot Beam all dreadful to behold. 1749 A. Hill Gideon (rev. ed.) iii. 120 Two ghastly Meteors..Sicklying the Sable, with a bloodshot Red. 1806 J. Montgomery Wanderer of Switzerland & Other Poems 154 On thy state Whirlwinds wait; And blood-shot meteors lend thee light. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists i. 41 What fever was boiling in him, that he should see all the world blood-shot? 1879 Q. Rev. Apr. 412 The papal scare assumed a novel and a bloodshot hue. 1904 J. Davidson Test. Prime Minister 93 Blood-shot foam in ruby-tinctured scrolls Unfurled and withered on the darkling shore. 1955 W. H. Auden Shield of Achilles i. 29 Bloodshot images of rivers screaming, Marbles in panic, and Don't-Care made to care. 1998 New Yorker 23 Mar. 92/3 The portrait of ‘Linda’, for example, swims in a bloodshot red mist, where every bluish vein and waxy lipstick crease is mercilessly visible. 1. Redness of the eye; blood present in or beneath the conjunctiva; spec. congestion of conjunctival blood vessels; an instance or case of this. Also in figurative context. Cf. bloodshed n. 4. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > bloodshot or bloodshot eye bloodshot1552 blood-shotten1578 blood-shotting1578 hyposphagma1615 bloodshed1652 blood eye1658 blood-shottenness1659 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bloudeshot in the eye, as when the eye is hurt the bloude spreadeth, Hyposphagma. 1576 A. Fleming tr. C. Hegendorphinus in Panoplie Epist. 382 From drunkennesse proceede disseases in the eyes, as bloudshotts, &c. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 751 Very profitable for the bleardnesse or bloudshot of the eies. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila x. xc. 190 Oppression is the Bloud-shot in their Eyes. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 183 The hot blood [of pigeons]..discusseth suffusions and blood-shot. 1801 in C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 (1841) 187 They..will so gorge themselves with the film, or bloodshots, that, in the morning, they will be discharged dead from the eye. 1858 Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 577 We may go further and decide that but a small number of branches is injured, because the blood-shot is restricted in its extent. 2. Redness or vascular congestion of another part of the body. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood > intravasation or extravasation bloodshot1611 diapedesis1625 intravasation1674 extravasation1676 apoplexy1853 transmigration1890 gastrostaxis1906 insudation1966 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Engeleure, a chilblane; or, the bloud-shot which cold settles, and congeales, vpon the fingers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † bloodshotv. Obsolete. transitive. To make (an eye) bloodshot. Chiefly in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > afflict with eye disorder [verb (transitive)] > make bloodshot bloodshot1593 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares f. 34 I will blood-shot myne eyes, that all may seeme sanguine they looke on. 1643 Answer Ld. Digby's Apol. 22 All that might bloud-shot other mens eys. a1692 J. March Serm. (1693) viii. 177 The good Man whilst he lives in this World, has his Eyes daily bloodshot with Murders; his Ears unhallowed with Oaths and Blasphemies; his Nostrils offended with the Drunkards Vomits. 1867 Meliora 10 356 It lighted up his whole head, keeping his cheeks in a state of perpetual inflammation, shining out especially all over his nose, bloodshotting his eyes, baking and cracking his lips. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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