bleedingn.

/ˈbliːdɪŋ/

Etymology: < bleed n. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The flowing or dropping of blood (from a wound, etc.); hæmorrhage.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood

runeOE

stranda1240

flux1377

bleedingc1385

rhexisc1425

issuec1500

haemorrhagy?1541

bleeda1585

sanguination1598

falla1616

haemorrhage1671

saltation1672

persultation1706

fusion1725

haematosis1811

phleborrhagia1833

secondary haemorrhage1837

splinter haemorrhage1931

haemorrhaging1967

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 849 Thou shalt feele as well the blood of me As thou hast felt the bleeding of Tisbe.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxxvi. 1031 Poudre þerof [sc. druye rose] stauncheþ bledyng at þe nose.

a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 309 Bleeding of the person slaine, at the presence of the murtherer.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 63 He..applied some lint to stop the bleeding.

b. Of plants: The emission of sap (from a wound). Also attributive, as in bleeding-season.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > fluid, juice, or sap > flow of sap from wound

bleeding1675

latescencea1856

1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. i. 43 The Bleeding of Plants..properly enough expresses the eruption of the Sap out of any Vessels.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 161 The Bleeding of the Vine.

1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 677 The phenomenon known as the ‘bleeding’ of wood cut in the winter.

2. Drawing or ‘letting’ of blood. Also attributive, as bleeding-bowl (see quot. 1916), bleeding-knife.

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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun]

bloodleaseeOE

bloodlettingOE

lettingOE

minutionc1386

vein bloodc1405

bleedingc1440

blooding1525

eventation?1543

the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > cupping-glassor -horn

box?a1425

bleeding-boistc1440

ventose1500

cucurbit?1541

cucurbitule?1541

cupping-glass1545

boxing glass1562

ventosa1562

wind-glass1585

cupping box1592

boxing cup1605

cup-glass1616

cup1617

bleeding-bowl1911

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 38 Bledynge, sanguinacio, fleobotomia.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 39 Bledynge yryn, fleobotomium.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Mj What is bledyng or blode lettynge.

1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. xii. 647 His Physician resolv'd upon a Bleeding.

c1783 W. Stark in Med. Communications 1 383 Bleeding is the appropriated remedy for a cough.

1837 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches III. 35 The butcher came up with his bleeding-knife.

1911 C. J. Jackson Illustr. Hist. Eng. Plate I. i. ix. 264 Surgeon's bleeding-bowl, with pierced handle.

1916 Connoisseur Dec. 229/2 The so-called Bleeding Bowl, or Cupping Dish... Such bowls were used by surgeons when bleeding their patients.

figurative.1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxiv. 427 This bleeding is more dreadful because the Holy Office is the bleeder.1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. I. viii. 492 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 attributive.

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the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > extracting gas or fluid

draining1565

exhaustion1661

aspiration1842

adspiration1851

bleeding1889

bleed1949

1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) To bleed the brakes, in a locomotive, to relieve the pressure on the air-brakes by opening the bleeding-valve or release-cock of the brake-cylinder.

1928 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 5 Where turbine ‘bleeding’ is resorted to for feed heating.

1959 Engineering 2 Jan. 26/3 The bleeding of air from the compressor to cool the blades.

1959 Engineering 27 Feb. 263/3 The hydraulic system is..provided with bleeding screws to allow the escape of air enclosures.

a. Of a dye: see bleed v. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > running of dye

running1758

bleeding1893

1893 E. Knecht et al. Man. Dyeing 724 Fastness to washing and to bleeding or running should be determined with water alone and with soap.

1959 Which? 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > incrustation > on metal > rust > which weeps through scale adherent to boilers

bleeding1888

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > through any medium or space > passing through a porous medium

sipec888

oozinga1398

siping1503

sying1530

filtering1576

filtration1602

percolation1613

transudation1617

filtrature1670

ooze1718

transuding1756

sap1794

seepage1825

sipage1825

percolating1861

soakage1867

bleeding1926

1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Bleeding, the red streaks of rust which weep through the scale adherent to the insides of boilers, and which reveal the presence of corrosion in the plates underneath.

1926 Paint, 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.

1951 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (new ed.) 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.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > exuding > specifically from bitumen or concrete

bleeding1914

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [noun] > bitumen or pitch > exudation of

bleeding1914

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > formation of layer of water on concrete

bleeding1954

1914 H. P. Boulnois Gloss. Road Terms 14 Bleeding, the exudation of pitch or bitumen from the road surface or from the prepared material.

1954 Highway 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.

1954 Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 36 Bleeding, the formation of a thin layer of water on the exposed surface of concrete during the finishing processes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

bleedingadj.

Etymology: < bleed n. + -ing suffix².

a. Losing or emitting blood, or transferred sap.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having fluid or sap > losing or emitting sap

bleedinga1250

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding

bloodyOE

bleedinga1250

railinga1470

sanguinolent1598

sanguifluous1684

haemorrhagious1753

weltering1816

a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 52 Bledinde mon is grislich.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxii. 129 A bledynge wounde.

1703 N. Rowe Ulysses iv. i. 1706 That poor bleeding King.

1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 45 Thistles..cut close to the ground, are destroyed by scattering soaper's ashes over the bleeding stumps.

b. Running or suffused with blood.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood

redOE

bloodyOE

drearyOE

weta1300

bloodedc1300

bleedingc1305

forbled1387

gory?a1500

cruent1524

purpled1561

brued1563

beweltered1565

bloodied1566

beblubbered1582

purple1590

bloodstained1594

ensanguined1628

blood-bedabbled1629

cruentous1648

cruentate1661

begored1683

sanguined1700

bluggy1876

c1305 Leg. Rood (1871) 133 Bounden . in bledyng bondes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 304 Whose sonnes lye scattered on the bleeding ground.

2. figurative.

a. Full of anguish from suffering, deep pity, or compassion.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > moved by > deeply

bleeding1590

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G3^v These bleeding words she gan to say.

1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 84 With bleeding harts.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxi. sig. S8^v Calamities that challenge the tributes of a bleeding eye.

1688 N. N. Old Popery as Good as New 4 Compassionate and Bleeding Thoughts.

1713 E. Budgell in Guardian 16 Apr. 2/1 All those Good-natured Offices that could have been expected from the most bleeding Pity.

b. metaphorical. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K4 Experience for me many bulwarkes builded Of proofs new bleeding.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 387 Cruelty..of which they every day received fresh and bleeding evidence.

3. figurative and transferred. Said of nations devastated by war or the like, etc. Also, as in bleed v. 5b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > grievously

lacerate1514

lacerated1556

bleeding1671

1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 50 This is the folly of a bleeding Gamester.

1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 503 The bleeding condition of Ireland.

1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 537 The relief of bleeding and miserable Ireland.

1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. i. 9 Greece herself, bleeding and exhausted after her efforts in the War of Liberation.

4. quasi-adv. (Cf. 2b.)

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. ii. 76 So they were bleeding new my Lord, there's no meat like 'em.

5. A substitute for bloody adj. 8 (and bloody adv. 2). low slang.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation

stinking?c1225

misbegetc1325

banned1340

cursefula1382

wariablea1382

cursedc1386

biccheda1400

maledighta1400

vilea1400

accursedc1400

whoresona1450

remauldit?1473

execrable1490

infamous1490

unbicheda1500

jolly1534

bloodyc1540

mangy?1548

pagan1550

damned1563

misbegotten1571

putid1580

desperate1581

excremental1591

inexecrable?1594

sacred1594

putrid1628

sad1664

blasted1682

plagued1728

damnation1757

infernal1764

damn1775

pesky1775

deuced1782

shocking1798

blessed1806

darned1815

dinged1821

anointed1823

goldarn1830

darn1835

cussed1837

blamed1840

unholy1842

verdomde1850

bleeding1858

ghastly1860

goddam1861

blankety1872

blame1876

bastard1877

God-awful1877

dashed1881

sodding1881

bally1885

ungodly1887

blazing1888

dee1889

motherfucking1890

blistering1900

plurry1900

Christly1910

blinking1914

blethering1915

blighted1915

blighting1916

soddish1922

somethinged1922

effing1929

Jesus1929

dagnab1934

bastarding1944

Christless1947

mother-loving1948

mothering1951

pussyclaat1957

mother-grabbing1959

pigging1970

1858 Furnivall 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.

1876 W. Besant & J. Rice This Son of Vulcan ii. xxiii When he isn't up to one dodge he is up to another. You make no bleeding error.

1884 Sessions Paper 8 Jan. 325 If you don't bleeding well let me go.

1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago i. 4 This is a bleed'n' unsocial sort o' evenin' party.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 297 God blimey if she aint a clinker... Blimey it makes me kind of bleeding cry.

1967 Times 17 Nov. 8/4 Why don't you bleeding do something about it?

1967 Times 17 Nov. 8/4 He wants to take bleeding care that light duty work is continuous.

Compounds

bleeding heart n. (a) the popular name for several plants; e.g. the Wallflower ( Cheiranthus cheiri), the Aristotelia peduncularis, Colocasia esculenta of the Hawaiian Islands, Dicentra formosa, and a variety of Cherry (Miller); (b) figurative an excessively soft-hearted or sympathetic person (colloquial); also attributive.

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun]

heatha700

beeworteOE

leversc725

springworteOE

clotec1000

halswortc1000

sengreenc1000

bottle?a1200

bird's-tonguea1300

bloodworta1300

faverolea1300

vetchc1300

pimpernel1378

oniona1398

bird's nest?a1425

adder's grassc1450

cockheada1500

ambrosia1525

fleawort1548

son before the father1552

crow-toe1562

basil1578

bird's-foot1578

bloodroot1578

throatwort1578

phalangium1608

yew1653

chalcedon1664

dittany1676

bleeding heart1691

felon-wort1706

hedgehog1712

land caltrops1727

old man's beard1731

loosestrife1760

Solomon's seal1760

fireweed1764

desert rose1792

star of Bethlehem1793

hen and chickens1794

Aaron's beard1820

felon-grass1824

arrowroot1835

snake-root1856

firebush1858

tick-seed1860

bird's eye1863

burning bush1866

rat-tail1871

lamb's earsa1876

lamb's tongue plant1882

tar-weed1884

Tom Thumb1886

parrotbeak1890

stinkweed1932

the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > sympathy > sympathetic person(s) > excessively sympathetic person

bleeding heart1958

1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 171 Cherries... Bleeding Heart.

1803 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 17) 674/1 Cherries..White heart, Black heart, Bleeding heart.

1825 J. Britton Beauties Wilts. III. 371 Bleeding-heart, the wall-flower.

1887 Cent. Mag. July 325 The white-hearts (related to the bleeding-hearts of the gardens, and absurdly called ‘Dutchman's breeches’).

1897 Outing (U.S.) 29 318/2 She held out a rose to Ferguson, but to Jonathan she gave a bleeding-heart.

1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 130 The tender, mild Flowers of the bleeding-heart.

1923 E. F. Wyatt Invisible Gods i. ii. 16 The sprays of bleeding heart.

1958 J. 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.

bleeding root n. = bloodroot n.

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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > blood-root plant or root

bleeding root1714

bloodroot1724

Indian paint1803

sanguinaria1808

1714 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 29 64 The root call'd the Bleeding Root, curing the Jaundies.

1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 24.

bleeding tooth n. the shell of a gastropod mollusc, Nerita peloronta, which has a red mark on the columella tooth.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Neritidae > genus Nerita or shell of

Nerita1696

nerite1708

yolk nerite1713

yolk nerita1796

yolk of egg1797

bleeding tooth1881

1881 Jrnl. Conchol. 3 165 I did not find the ‘Bleeding Tooth’ very common at Key West.

1954 R. T. Abbott Amer. Seashells 128 Nerita peloronta Linné. Bleeding Tooth. Southeast Florida, Bermuda and the West Indies.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	bleeding
释义	bleedingn. /ˈbliːdɪŋ/ Etymology: < bleed n. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The flowing or dropping of blood (from a wound, etc.); hæmorrhage. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [noun] > bleeding or flow of blood runeOE stranda1240 flux1377 bleedingc1385 rhexisc1425 issuec1500 haemorrhagy?1541 bleeda1585 sanguination1598 falla1616 haemorrhage1671 saltation1672 persultation1706 fusion1725 haematosis1811 phleborrhagia1833 secondary haemorrhage1837 splinter haemorrhage1931 haemorrhaging1967 c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women 849 Thou shalt feele as well the blood of me As thou hast felt the bleeding of Tisbe. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvii. cxxxvi. 1031 Poudre þerof [sc. druye rose] stauncheþ bledyng at þe nose. a1617 S. Hieron Penance for Sinne in Wks. (1620) II. 309 Bleeding of the person slaine, at the presence of the murtherer. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth ii, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 63 He..applied some lint to stop the bleeding. b. Of plants: The emission of sap (from a wound). Also attributive, as in bleeding-season. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [noun] > fluid, juice, or sap > flow of sap from wound bleeding1675 latescencea1856 1675 N. Grew Compar. Anat. Trunks ii. i. 43 The Bleeding of Plants..properly enough expresses the eruption of the Sap out of any Vessels. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 161 The Bleeding of the Vine. 1882 S. H. Vines tr. J. von Sachs Text-bk. Bot. (ed. 2) 677 The phenomenon known as the ‘bleeding’ of wood cut in the winter. 2. Drawing or ‘letting’ of blood. Also attributive, as bleeding-bowl (see quot. 1916), bleeding-knife. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > bloodletting > [noun] bloodleaseeOE bloodlettingOE lettingOE minutionc1386 vein bloodc1405 bleedingc1440 blooding1525 eventation?1543 the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > other surgical equipment > [noun] > cupping-glassor -horn box?a1425 bleeding-boistc1440 ventose1500 cucurbit?1541 cucurbitule?1541 cupping-glass1545 boxing glass1562 ventosa1562 wind-glass1585 cupping box1592 boxing cup1605 cup-glass1616 cup1617 bleeding-bowl1911 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 38 Bledynge, sanguinacio, fleobotomia. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 39 Bledynge yryn, fleobotomium. ?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens iv. sig. Mj What is bledyng or blode lettynge. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon iii. xii. 647 His Physician resolv'd upon a Bleeding. c1783 W. Stark in Med. Communications 1 383 Bleeding is the appropriated remedy for a cough. 1837 J. Hogg Tales & Sketches III. 35 The butcher came up with his bleeding-knife. 1911 C. J. Jackson Illustr. Hist. Eng. Plate I. i. ix. 264 Surgeon's bleeding-bowl, with pierced handle. 1916 Connoisseur Dec. 229/2 The so-called Bleeding Bowl, or Cupping Dish... Such bowls were used by surgeons when bleeding their patients. figurative.1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxiv. 427 This bleeding is more dreadful because the Holy Office is the bleeder.1833 A. Alison Hist. Europe during French Revol. I. viii. 492 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > extraction > [noun] > extracting gas or fluid draining1565 exhaustion1661 aspiration1842 adspiration1851 bleeding1889 bleed1949 1889 Cent. Dict. (at cited word) To bleed the brakes, in a locomotive, to relieve the pressure on the air-brakes by opening the bleeding-valve or release-cock of the brake-cylinder. 1928 Daily Tel. 17 Jan. 5 Where turbine ‘bleeding’ is resorted to for feed heating. 1959 Engineering 2 Jan. 26/3 The bleeding of air from the compressor to cool the blades. 1959 Engineering 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. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > colouring > dyeing > [noun] > running of dye running1758 bleeding1893 1893 E. Knecht et al. Man. Dyeing 724 Fastness to washing and to bleeding or running should be determined with water alone and with soap. 1959 Which? 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. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > specific impurities > incrustation > on metal > rust > which weeps through scale adherent to boilers bleeding1888 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement over, across, through, or past > [noun] > through any medium or space > passing through a porous medium sipec888 oozinga1398 siping1503 sying1530 filtering1576 filtration1602 percolation1613 transudation1617 filtrature1670 ooze1718 transuding1756 sap1794 seepage1825 sipage1825 percolating1861 soakage1867 bleeding1926 1888 Lockwood's Dict. Mech. Engin. Bleeding, the red streaks of rust which weep through the scale adherent to the insides of boilers, and which reveal the presence of corrosion in the plates underneath. 1926 Paint, 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. 1951 R. Mayer Artist's Handbk. (new ed.) 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.) ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > exuding > specifically from bitumen or concrete bleeding1914 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [noun] > bitumen or pitch > exudation of bleeding1914 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > concrete > [noun] > formation of layer of water on concrete bleeding1954 1914 H. P. Boulnois Gloss. Road Terms 14 Bleeding, the exudation of pitch or bitumen from the road surface or from the prepared material. 1954 Highway 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. 1954 Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 36 Bleeding, the formation of a thin layer of water on the exposed surface of concrete during the finishing processes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). bleedingadj. Etymology: < bleed n. + -ing suffix². 1. a. Losing or emitting blood, or transferred sap. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > plant substances > [adjective] > having fluid or sap > losing or emitting sap bleedinga1250 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adjective] > of blood > bleeding bloodyOE bleedinga1250 railinga1470 sanguinolent1598 sanguifluous1684 haemorrhagious1753 weltering1816 a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 52 Bledinde mon is grislich. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) v. xxii. 129 A bledynge wounde. 1703 N. Rowe Ulysses iv. i. 1706 That poor bleeding King. 1787 G. Winter New Syst. Husbandry 45 Thistles..cut close to the ground, are destroyed by scattering soaper's ashes over the bleeding stumps. b. Running or suffused with blood. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood redOE bloodyOE drearyOE weta1300 bloodedc1300 bleedingc1305 forbled1387 gory?a1500 cruent1524 purpled1561 brued1563 beweltered1565 bloodied1566 beblubbered1582 purple1590 bloodstained1594 ensanguined1628 blood-bedabbled1629 cruentous1648 cruentate1661 begored1683 sanguined1700 bluggy1876 c1305 Leg. Rood (1871) 133 Bounden . in bledyng bondes. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 304 Whose sonnes lye scattered on the bleeding ground. View more context for this quotation 2. figurative. a. Full of anguish from suffering, deep pity, or compassion. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > [adjective] > moved by > deeply bleeding1590 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G3^v These bleeding words she gan to say. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. xlii. 84 With bleeding harts. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lxi. sig. S8^v Calamities that challenge the tributes of a bleeding eye. 1688 N. N. Old Popery as Good as New 4 Compassionate and Bleeding Thoughts. 1713 E. Budgell in Guardian 16 Apr. 2/1 All those Good-natured Offices that could have been expected from the most bleeding Pity. b. metaphorical. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. K4 Experience for me many bulwarkes builded Of proofs new bleeding. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 387 Cruelty..of which they every day received fresh and bleeding evidence. 3. figurative and transferred. Said of nations devastated by war or the like, etc. Also, as in bleed v. 5b. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] > grievously lacerate1514 lacerated1556 bleeding1671 1671 J. Dryden Evening's Love iv. 50 This is the folly of a bleeding Gamester. 1689 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 503 The bleeding condition of Ireland. 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. v. 537 The relief of bleeding and miserable Ireland. 1863 M. Howitt tr. F. Bremer Greece & Greeks I. i. 9 Greece herself, bleeding and exhausted after her efforts in the War of Liberation. 4. quasi-adv. (Cf. 2b.) ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) i. ii. 76 So they were bleeding new my Lord, there's no meat like 'em. View more context for this quotation 5. A substitute for bloody adj. 8 (and bloody adv. 2). low slang. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > state of being accursed > [adjective] > as everyday imprecation stinking?c1225 misbegetc1325 banned1340 cursefula1382 wariablea1382 cursedc1386 biccheda1400 maledighta1400 vilea1400 accursedc1400 whoresona1450 remauldit?1473 execrable1490 infamous1490 unbicheda1500 jolly1534 bloodyc1540 mangy?1548 pagan1550 damned1563 misbegotten1571 putid1580 desperate1581 excremental1591 inexecrable?1594 sacred1594 putrid1628 sad1664 blasted1682 plagued1728 damnation1757 infernal1764 damn1775 pesky1775 deuced1782 shocking1798 blessed1806 darned1815 dinged1821 anointed1823 goldarn1830 darn1835 cussed1837 blamed1840 unholy1842 verdomde1850 bleeding1858 ghastly1860 goddam1861 blankety1872 blame1876 bastard1877 God-awful1877 dashed1881 sodding1881 bally1885 ungodly1887 blazing1888 dee1889 motherfucking1890 blistering1900 plurry1900 Christly1910 blinking1914 blethering1915 blighted1915 blighting1916 soddish1922 somethinged1922 effing1929 Jesus1929 dagnab1934 bastarding1944 Christless1947 mother-loving1948 mothering1951 pussyclaat1957 mother-grabbing1959 pigging1970 1858 Furnivall 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. 1876 W. Besant & J. Rice This Son of Vulcan ii. xxiii When he isn't up to one dodge he is up to another. You make no bleeding error. 1884 Sessions Paper 8 Jan. 325 If you don't bleeding well let me go. 1896 A. Morrison Child of Jago i. 4 This is a bleed'n' unsocial sort o' evenin' party. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. 297 God blimey if she aint a clinker... Blimey it makes me kind of bleeding cry. 1967 Times 17 Nov. 8/4 Why don't you bleeding do something about it? 1967 Times 17 Nov. 8/4 He wants to take bleeding care that light duty work is continuous. Compounds bleeding heart n. (a) the popular name for several plants; e.g. the Wallflower ( Cheiranthus cheiri), the Aristotelia peduncularis, Colocasia esculenta of the Hawaiian Islands, Dicentra formosa, and a variety of Cherry (Miller); (b) figurative an excessively soft-hearted or sympathetic person (colloquial); also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > names applied to various plants > [noun] heatha700 beeworteOE leversc725 springworteOE clotec1000 halswortc1000 sengreenc1000 bottle?a1200 bird's-tonguea1300 bloodworta1300 faverolea1300 vetchc1300 pimpernel1378 oniona1398 bird's nest?a1425 adder's grassc1450 cockheada1500 ambrosia1525 fleawort1548 son before the father1552 crow-toe1562 basil1578 bird's-foot1578 bloodroot1578 throatwort1578 phalangium1608 yew1653 chalcedon1664 dittany1676 bleeding heart1691 felon-wort1706 hedgehog1712 land caltrops1727 old man's beard1731 loosestrife1760 Solomon's seal1760 fireweed1764 desert rose1792 star of Bethlehem1793 hen and chickens1794 Aaron's beard1820 felon-grass1824 arrowroot1835 snake-root1856 firebush1858 tick-seed1860 bird's eye1863 burning bush1866 rat-tail1871 lamb's earsa1876 lamb's tongue plant1882 tar-weed1884 Tom Thumb1886 parrotbeak1890 stinkweed1932 the mind > emotion > compassion > [noun] > sympathy > sympathetic person(s) > excessively sympathetic person bleeding heart1958 1691 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense (ed. 8) 171 Cherries... Bleeding Heart. 1803 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 17) 674/1 Cherries..White heart, Black heart, Bleeding heart. 1825 J. Britton Beauties Wilts. III. 371 Bleeding-heart, the wall-flower. 1887 Cent. Mag. July 325 The white-hearts (related to the bleeding-hearts of the gardens, and absurdly called ‘Dutchman's breeches’). 1897 Outing (U.S.) 29 318/2 She held out a rose to Ferguson, but to Jonathan she gave a bleeding-heart. 1916 D. H. Lawrence Amores 130 The tender, mild Flowers of the bleeding-heart. 1923 E. F. Wyatt Invisible Gods i. ii. 16 The sprays of bleeding heart. 1958 J. 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. bleeding root n. = bloodroot n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > non-British medicinal plants > [noun] > blood-root plant or root bleeding root1714 bloodroot1724 Indian paint1803 sanguinaria1808 1714 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 29 64 The root call'd the Bleeding Root, curing the Jaundies. 1863 R. C. A. Prior On Pop. Names Brit. Plants 24. bleeding tooth n. the shell of a gastropod mollusc, Nerita peloronta, which has a red mark on the columella tooth. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Neritidae > genus Nerita or shell of Nerita1696 nerite1708 yolk nerite1713 yolk nerita1796 yolk of egg1797 bleeding tooth1881 1881 Jrnl. Conchol. 3 165 I did not find the ‘Bleeding Tooth’ very common at Key West. 1954 R. T. Abbott Amer. Seashells 128 Nerita peloronta Linné. Bleeding Tooth. Southeast Florida, Bermuda and the West Indies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.c1385adj.a1250
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