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Definition of 'In blood'

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  • Blood \Blood\ (bl[u^]d), n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[=o]d; akin to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl[=o][thorn], Icel. bl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E. blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.]
  • 1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. [1913 Webster]
  • To share the blood of Saxon royalty. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
  • A friend of our own blood. --Waller. [1913 Webster]
  • Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent.
  • Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. --Bouvier. --Peters. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. [1913 Webster]
  • Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. The fleshy nature of man. [1913 Webster]
  • Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. [1913 Webster]
  • So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones. --Hood. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.] [1913 Webster]
  • He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions. [1913 Webster]
  • When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up. [1913 Webster]
  • 9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. [1913 Webster]
  • Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
  • 10. The juice of anything, especially if red. [1913 Webster]
  • He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes. --Gen. xiix. 11. [1913 Webster]
  • Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won. [1913 Webster]
  • Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism.
  • Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury.
  • Blood brother, brother by blood or birth.
  • Blood clam (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh.
  • Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle.
  • Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the h[ae]moglobin of the red blood corpuscles; h[ae]matocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals.
  • Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 981/2 [deg] Fahr.
  • Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
  • Blood money. See in the Vocabulary.
  • Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp.
  • Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; tox[ae]mia.
  • Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
  • Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent.
  • Blood spavin. See under Spavin.
  • Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary.
  • Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family.
  • Flesh and blood. (a) A blood relation, esp. a child. (b) Human nature.
  • In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor. --Shak.
  • To let blood. See under Let.
  • Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal. [1913 Webster]

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