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verb

Blood v. t. (past & past part. blooded; pres. part. blooding)

To bleed. (Obs.)

To stain, smear or wet, with blood. (Archaic) "Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points."

To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. "It was most important too that his troops should be blooded."

To heat the blood of; to exasperate. (Obs.) "The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another."

adjective

Blooded adj. Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock. Note: Used also in composition in phrases indicating a particular condition or quality of blood; as, cold-blooded; warm-blooded.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the remains of several other species of warm-blooded quadrupeds were exhumed by Mr. S.H. Beckles, F.R.S., from the same thin bed of marl near the base of the Middle Purbeck. In this marly stratum many reptiles, several insects, and some fresh-water shells of the genera Paludina, Planorbis, ...

— The Student's Elements of Geology • Sir Charles Lyell

... regions above the moon, always clear and serene." But the genius of Montaigne does not often soar, though even one little flight like that shows that it has wings. Montaigne's garnishes of quotation from foreign tongues are often a cold-blooded device of afterthought with him. His first edition was without them, in many places where subsequently they appear. Readers familiar with Emerson will be reminded of him in perusing Montaigne. Emerson himself said, "It seemed to ...

— Classic French Course in English • William Cleaver Wilkinson

... This resourceful gentleman was quite elated at the prospect of having some fun, as he termed it. His recommendations were of a very painful and drastic character. He talked of putting them into practice in a cool, frosty-blooded way which caused the lady and her husband to shudder. "It is too dreadful, Johnny," remarked Mrs Macvie; "surely what you say has never been resorted to, even to defeat the ...

— The Shellback's Progress - In the Nineteenth Century • Walter Runciman

... we are getting in fiction—the best sort of realism. Realism is now abjuring the heroic theory; it has thrown over the old conventions, the felicitous coincidences, life arranged on ideal lines; and it has gone straight to life itself, strong, full-blooded, eager life, full of mistakes and blunders and failures and sharp disasters and fears. Life goes shambling along like a big dog, but it has got its nose on the scent of something. It is a much more mysterious and prodigious affair than life rearranged upon romantic lines. It ...

— Escape and Other Essays • Arthur Christopher Benson

... was taken with a fit soon after he awakened. Mr. King was here, by good fortune, and blooded him at once. Now they are blooding him again. Her Majesty hath been ...

— Oddsfish! • Robert Hugh Benson

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