blood

A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.countableuncountable

• Some insects are known for consuming blood.
• Blood started to spurt out of his hand due to the wound.

A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.countableuncountable

• a friend of our own blood
• to share the blood of Saxon royalty

A person or people related to one by birth; one's biological relative or relatives.uncountable

• She may not be my blood, but we grew up together, and as far as I'm concerned she's my sister.

One of the four humours in the human body.countablehistoricaluncountable

The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid or period blood.countableuncountable

A blood test or blood sample.countableinformal

• When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all.

The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.countableuncountable

• It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood."
• Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...]

The juice of anything, especially if red.countablepoeticuncountable

• He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes.

A temper of mind; a disposition; a mood.countableuncountable

• When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth
• Hath Cassius liu'd / To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, / When greefe and blood ill temper'd, vexeth him?

A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.countableobsoleteuncountable

• Seest thou not[…]how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
• […] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […]

To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.transitive

• The French gentleman and Mr Adderly, at the desire of their commanding officer, had raised up the body of Jones, but as they could perceive but little (if any) sign of life in him, they again let him fall, Adderly damning him for having blo

To let blood (from); to bleed.historical

• On Sᵗ Stephens day the Farrier came constantly and blouded all the Cart-horses.
• Mr Western, who imputed these symptoms in his daughter to her fall, advised her to be presently blooded by way of prevention.

To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.transitive

• Roberts-Smith and his commander had made it clear the "rookie" needed to kill someone to truly become part of the squadron. They called it a "blooding". The assault patrols cleared the compound known as Whiskey 108 and declared it secure. A

To make eager for bloodshed or combat; to incite or enrage against.obsoletetransitive