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- English Word Bloodguilty Definition Guilty of murder or bloodshed.
- English Word Bloodhound Definition A breed of large and powerful dogs, with long, smooth, and pendulous ears, and remarkable for acuteness of smell. It is employed to recover game or prey which has escaped wounded from a hunter, and for tracking criminals. Formerly it was used for pursuing runaway slaves. Other varieties of dog are often used for the same purpose and go by the same name. The Cuban bloodhound is said to be a variety of the mastiff.
- English Word Bloodied Definition of Bloody
- English Word Bloodily Definition In a bloody manner; cruelly; with a disposition to shed blood.
- English Word Bloodiness Definition The state of being bloody.
- English Word Bloodiness Definition Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness.
- English Word Blooding Definition of Blood
- English Word Bloodless Definition Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.
- English Word Bloodless Definition Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory.
- English Word Bloodless Definition Without spirit or activity.
- 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.