Definition of blood

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Blood (n.) Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage..

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Dyscrasia :: Dyscrasia (n.) An ill habit or state of the constitution; -- formerly regarded as dependent on a morbid condition of the blood and humors.
Diapedesis :: Diapedesis (n.) The passage of the corpuscular elements of the blood from the blood vessels into the surrounding tissues, without rupture of the walls of the blood vessels..
Hound :: Hound (n.) A variety of the domestic dog, usually having large, drooping ears, esp. one which hunts game by scent, as the foxhound, bloodhound, deerhound, but also used for various breeds of fleet hunting dogs, as the greyhound, boarhound, etc..
Slaughter :: Slaughter (v. t.) The extensive, violent, bloody, or wanton destruction of life; carnage..
Cachexy :: Cachexy (n.) A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle)..
Congestion :: Congestion (n.) Overfullness of the capillary and other blood vessels, etc., in any locality or organ (often producing other morbid symptoms); local hyper/mia, active or passive; as, arterial congestion; venous congestion; congestion of the lungs..
Effusion :: Effusion (n.) The act of pouring out; as, effusion of water, of blood, of grace, of words, and the like..
Bloodroot :: Bloodroot (n.) 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..
Flesh :: Flesh (v. t.) To feed with flesh, as an incitement to further exertion; to initiate; -- from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take, or other flesh. Hence, to use upon flesh (as a murderous weapon) so as to draw blood, especially for the first time..
Midget :: Midget (n.) A minute bloodsucking fly.
Fluxion :: Fluxion (n.) An unnatural or excessive flow of blood or fluid toward any organ; a determination.
Sanguine :: Sanguine (a.) Having the color of blood; red.
Embolus :: Embolus (n.) A plug of some substance lodged in a blood vessel, being brought thither by the blood current. It consists most frequently of a clot of fibrin, a detached shred of a morbid growth, a globule of fat, or a microscopic organism..
Secretion :: Secretion (n.) The act of secreting; the process by which material is separated from the blood through the agency of the cells of the various glands and elaborated by the cells into new substances so as to form the various secretions, as the saliva, bile, and other digestive fluids. The process varies in the different glands, and hence are formed the various secretions..
Grade :: Grade (n.) The result of crossing a native stock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade..
Duke :: Duke (n.) In England, one of the highest order of nobility after princes and princesses of the royal blood and the four archbishops of England and Ireland..
Bloody :: Bloody (v. t.) To stain with blood.
Bloodwit :: Bloodwit (n.) A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled..
Akin :: Akin (a.) Of the same kin; related by blood; -- used of persons; as, the two families are near akin..
Fatten :: Fatten (v. t.) To make fertile and fruitful; to enrich; as, to fatten land; to fatten fields with blood..
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