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Blood

noun

The fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets. "The ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"

Temperament or disposition.

A dissolute man in fashionable society. Synonyms: profligate, rake, rakehell, rip, roue.

The descendants of one individual. Synonyms: ancestry, blood line, bloodline, descent, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock.

People viewed as members of a group.

verb

(past & past part. blooded; pres. part. blooding)

Smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill.

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"Blood" Quotes from Famous Books

... to have had great influence (Pauly). He was the author of that famous description of Tiberius which is given by Suetonius (Tib. 57), pelos haimati pephuramenos, "A clod kneaded together with blood."[1] ...

— On the Sublime • Longinus

... the youth he appeared when captured by Lieutenant Zouch, and he had acquired an impudent air very unlike that of other natives. According to his own confession he had put Mr. Cunningham to death in cold blood, and Mr. Ferguson had in return clothed and fed him for one year, and taught him the ...

— Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Vol 2 (of 2) • Thomas Mitchell

... Dick firmly. "We have our sticks, and the dog, and we'll do our best with them. If a pistol is used it may mean the destruction of a life, and I would rather give up our adventure than have blood upon our hands." ...

— Patience Wins - War in the Works • George Manville Fenn

... died. It was by some curious method of sudden arterial stoppage. Old as they were, some fiendish trick was employed so skilfully that the result was actual heart failure. There was no trace of drugs in lungs or blood. On each man's breast, beneath the sternum bone I found a dull, barely discernible bruise mark, which I later removed by a ...

— The Voice on the Wire • Eustace Hale Ball

... counted every stroke. This brother of yours would persuade me out of my senses, Miss Morland; do but look at my horse; did you ever see an animal so made for speed in your life?" (The servant had just mounted the carriage and was driving off.) "Such true blood! Three hours and and a half indeed coming only three and twenty miles! Look at that creature, and suppose it possible if ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

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