'Bloods' definitions:
Definition of 'Bloods'
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- Gang \Gang\, n. [Icel. gangr a going, gang, akin to AS., D., G., & Dan. gang a going, Goth. gaggs street, way. See Gang, v. i.]
- 1. A going; a course. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang of saws, or of plows. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Naut.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang of stays. [1913 Webster]
- 5. [Cf. Gangue.] (Mining) The mineral substance which incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue. [1913 Webster]
- 6. A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or less formalized group associating for social purposes, in some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen gang; a youth gang; a street gang.
- Note: Youth gangs often associate with particular areas in a city, and may turn violent when they feel their territory is encroached upon. In Los Angeles the Crips and the Bloods are large gangs antagonistic to each other. [PJC]
- 7. A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a criminal organization; as, the Parker gang. [PJC]
- Gang board, or Gang plank. (Naut.) (a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel. (b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's waist, for the sentinel to walk on.
- Gang cask, a small cask in which to bring water aboard ships or in which it is kept on deck.
- Gang cultivator, Gang plow, a cultivator or plow in which several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make two or more furrows at the same time.
- Gang days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating parishes. See Gang week (below).
- Gang drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft.
- Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen.
- Gang plank. See Gang board (above).
- Gang plow. See Gang cultivator (above).
- Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by intervening plates.
- Gang saw, a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed distances apart.
- Gang tide. See Gang week (below).
- Gang tooth, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
- Gang week, Rogation week, when formerly processions were made to survey the bounds of parishes. --Halliwell.
- Live gang, or Round gang, the Western and the Eastern names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the round log into boards at one operation. --Knight.
- Slabbing gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick beam. [1913 Webster] gangboard
Words containing 'Bloods'
- Blood,
- Blooded,
- Blooding,
- In blood,
- in the blood,
- Blood baptism,
- Blood blister,
- Blood brother,
- Blood clam,
- Blood corpuscle,
- Blood crystal,
- Blood heat,
- Blood horse,
- Blood money,
- Blood orange,
- Blood plasma,
- Blood plum,
- Blood poisoning,
- Blood pudding,
- Blood relation,
- Blood serum,
- Blood spavin,
- Blood vessel,
- Blue blood,
- Cold blood,
- Corruption of blood,
- Dragon's blood,
- Flesh and blood,
- Half blood,
- Ill blood,
- In cold blood,
- Inheritable blood,
- Prince of the blood,
- To let blood,
- Whole blood,
- Worthiest of blood,
- arterial blood,
- artificial blood,
- avenger of blood,
- bad blood,
- blood agar,
- blood and thunder,
- blood bank,
- blood berry,
- blood brotherhood,
- blood cell,
- blood clot,
- blood clotting,
- blood coagulation,
- blood count,
- blood cup,
- blood cyst,
- blood disease,
- blood disorder,
- blood donor,
- blood dyscrasia,
- blood extravasation,
- blood feud,
- blood flower,
- blood fluke,
- blood glucose,
- blood group,
- blood kinship,
- blood knot,
- blood lily,
- blood line,
- blood meal,
- blood plaque,
- blood plate,
- blood platelet,
- blood pressure,
- blood profile,
- blood relative,
- blood sausage,
- blood sport,
- blood stream,
- blood sugar,
- blood test,
- blood transfusion,
- blood type,
- blood typing,
- cancer of the blood,
- cold blooded,
- cord blood,
- full blood,
- full blooded,
- hot blood,
- hot blooded,
- jezreel blood of,
- menstrual blood,
- mixed blood,
- red blooded,
- shed blood,
- sweat blood,
- venous blood,
- Blood-boltered,
- Blood-shotten,
- Blue-blooded,
- Cold-blooded,
- Dane's-blood,
- Full-blooded,
- Half-blooded,
- Hot-blooded,
- Red blood corpuscles,
- Warm-blooded,
- White blood cell,
- White blood corpuscles,
- arterial blood gases,
- arterial blood vessel,
- blood urea nitrogen,
- blood-and-guts,
- blood-filled,
- blood-red,
- blood-related,
- blood-twig,
- brother of the half blood,
- cold-bloodedly,
- complete blood count,
- differential blood count,
- full-blood,
- high blood pressure,
- mixed-blood,
- psa blood test,
- red blood cell,
- red-blooded,
- venous blood system,
- venous blood vessel,
- white blood corpuscle,
- White cell-blood,
- abo blood group system,
- blood-brain barrier,
- rh-negative blood,
- rh-negative blood type,
- rh-positive blood type,
- cold cold-blooded inhuman insensate,
- blood-oxygenation level dependent functional magnetic resonance imaging,
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