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- English Word Bloodlet Definition bleed; to let blood.
- English Word Bloodletter Definition One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
- English Word Bloodletting Definition The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.
- English Word Bloodroot Definition A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.
- English Word Bloodshed Definition The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
- English Word Bloodshedder Definition One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
- English Word Bloodshedding Definition Bloodshed.
- English Word Bloodshot Definition Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.
- English Word Bloodstick Definition A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.
- English Word Bloodstone Definition A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.
- English Word Bloodstone Definition Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or "streak."
- English Word Bloodstroke Definition Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.
- English Word Bloodsucker Definition Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
- English Word Bloodsucker Definition One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.
- English Word Bloodsucker Definition A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.
- English Word Bloodthirsty Definition Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.
- English Word Bloodulf Definition The European bullfinch.
- English Word Bloodwit Definition A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
- English Word Bloodwite Definition Alt. of Bloodwit
- English Word Bloodwood Definition A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
- English Word Bloodwort Definition A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.
- English Word Bloody Definition Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
- English Word Bloody Definition Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
- English Word Bloody Definition Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
- English Word Bloody Definition Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.
- English Word Bloody Definition Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.
- English Word Bloody Definition To stain with blood.
- English Word Bloody flux Definition The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.
- English Word Bloody hand Definition A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison.
- English Word Bloody hand Definition A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.