blood /blud/

1. The oxygenating fluid (red in the higher animals) circulating in the body
2. Descent, birth
3. Relationship, kinship
4. (elliptically) a blood horse, one of good pedigree
5. A swaggering dandy about town
6. The blood-royal (as in princes of the blood)
7. Temperament
8. Bloodshed or murder
9. The juice of anything, esp if red
10. The supposed seat of passion, hence temper, anger (as his blood is up), etc
11. The sensual nature of man
12. A sensational or melodramatic tale; a penny-dreadful (slang)
13. A young man (also used as a term of address)

1. To bleed
2. To smear with blood
3. To initiate into blood sports or to war (also figurative)

bloodˈed adjective

1. Having blood
2. Of pure blood, pedigreed
3. Initiated

Having blood or temperament of the specified kind

bloodˈless adjective

1. Without blood
2. Dead
3. Anaemic, pale
4. Happening without bloodshed
5. Spiritless, lifeless
6. Unemotional

bloodˈlessness noun

blood agar noun

Agar-agar for growing bacteria, to which blood has been added before the jelly set

blood-and-thundˈer adjective

(of fiction, etc) violent, sensational, melodramatic

blood bank noun

A supply of blood plasma, or the place where it is kept

bloodˈbath noun

1. A bath in warm blood
2. A massacre (also figurative)

bloodˈ-bespotted adjective

Spotted or sprinkled with blood

bloodˈ-bird noun

An Australian honeyeater, the male of which has scarlet plumage

blood blister noun

A blister with blood in it, caused eg by a bruise

bloodˈ-boltered adjective

Clotted or matted with blood

bloodˈ-bought adjective (Shakespeare)

Bought at the expense of blood or life

blood brother noun

1. A brother by birth
2. A person who has entered a close and binding friendship with another, in some cultures by ceremonies involving the mixing of blood

blood cell noun

Any of the cells that circulate in the blood

bloodˈ-consuming adjective (Shakespeare).

blood corpuscle noun

A cell normally contained in suspension in the blood

blood count noun

The number of red or white corpuscles in the blood

bloodˈcurdling adjective

Exciting horror with a physical feeling as if the blood had curdled

bloodˈcurdlingly adverb

blood diamond noun

A diamond mined in a war zone and sold to fund a military campaign

blood donation noun

blood donor noun

A person who gives blood for use in transfusion

blood doping or blood packing noun

The practice of temporarily increasing the oxygen-carrying capacity of an athlete's blood by reinjecting red blood cells previously drawn off

bloodˈ-dust noun

Haemoconia

bloodˈ-feud noun

A family feud arising out of an act of bloodshed, a vendetta

bloodˈfin noun

A small freshwater fish native to S America which has red fins

bloodˈ-fine noun

A fine paid in compensation for a murder

bloodˈ-flower noun

1. A plant of the genus Haemanthus
2. A species of Asclepias

blood fluke noun

A schistosome

bloodˈ-frozen adjective (Spenser)

Having the blood frozen or chilled

blood group noun

Any of various types of blood identified and defined by their antigenetic structures, esp one of the four types of human blood (designated O, A, B, AB)

bloodˈ-guilt or bloodˈ-guiltiness noun

The guilt of shedding blood, eg in murder

bloodˈ-guilty adjective

blood heat noun

The normal temperature of human blood (37ºC or 98.4ºF)

blood horse noun

A horse of the purest and most highly prized blood, origin or stock, a thoroughbred

bloodˈ-hot adjective

As hot or warm as blood

bloodˈhound noun

1. A large hound, noted for its powers of following a scent
2. A detective (informal)

bloodˈletter noun

bloodˈletting noun

1. Drawing off blood by opening a vein (also figurative)
2. Bloodshed

blood libel noun

A false accusation of murder or barbarism, esp the medieval slander that Jews sacrificed Christian children at Passover

bloodˈline noun

(of animals, etc) all the individuals in a family line over a number of generations, esp as considered with regard to some characteristic or other

bloodˈlust noun

Desire for bloodshed

blood money noun

1. Money earned by laying or supporting a capital charge against anyone, esp if the charge is false or made by an accomplice
2. Money paid to a hired assassin
3. Money paid or accepted for doing something shameful
4. Compensation formerly paid to the next of kin of a victim who has been killed

blood oath noun (Aust)

An interjection expressing surprise or anger

blood orange noun

A variety of orange with red or red-streaked pulp

blood packing see blood doping above.

blood plasma noun

The almost colourless liquid left after the blood cells and platelets have been removed from blood

bloodˈ-plate noun

A platelet

blood poisoning noun

A name popularly, but loosely, used of pyaemia and septicaemia

blood pressure noun

The pressure of the blood on the walls of the blood vessels, varying with age and physical condition

blood pudding noun

Black pudding

blood purge noun

The massacre or execution of large numbers believed by a government or ruler to be disloyal

bloodˈ-rain noun

Rain coloured by red dust from the desert

bloodˈ-red adjective

Of the colour of blood

• fogs
• fog signal
• fog signals
• fog-smoke
• fogy
• fogydom
• fogydoms
• fogyish
• fogyism
• fogyisms
• foh
• foible
• foibles
• foid
• foids
• foie gras
• foies gras
• foil
• foilborne
• foiled
• long-waisted
• longwall
• longwalls
• longwall system
• longwall working