单词 | blood-boltered |
释义 | > as lemmasblood-boltered blood-boltered adj. [probably < blood n. + a variant of the past participle of balter v.] now literary and archaic clotted or clogged with blood; esp. having the hair matted with blood. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > clogged or stuck together with dirt > [adjective] > with specific substances blood-boltereda1616 oiled-up1912 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. i. 139 Now I see 'tis true, For the Blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles vpon me. View more context for this quotation 1782 S. Johnson tr. Euripides in Compl. Eng. Poems 137 Murder, all blood-bolter'd, schemes the wound. 1847 H. Miller First Impressions Eng. ii. 24 The old blood-boltered barons. 1986 P. D. James Taste for Death (1989) v. viii. 408 Such a small thing, a simple impulse obeyed, and it had led him to that blood-boltered vestry. < as lemmas |
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