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n. The fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues.

n. A functionally similar fluid in animals other than vertebrates.

n. The juice or sap of certain plants.

n. A vital or animating force; lifeblood.

n. One of the four humors of ancient and medieval physiology, identified with the blood found in blood vessels, and thought to cause cheerfulness.

n. Bloodshed; murder.

n. Temperament or disposition: a person of hot blood and fiery temper.

n. Descent from a common ancestor; parental lineage.

n. Family relationship; kinship.

n. Descent from noble or royal lineage: a princess of the blood.

n. Recorded descent from purebred stock.

n. National or racial ancestry.

n. A dandy.

v. To give (a hunting dog) its first taste of blood.

v. To subject (troops) to experience under fire: "The measure of an army is not known until it has been blooded” ( Tom Clancy).

v. To initiate by subjecting to an unpleasant or difficult experience.

idiom. bad blood Long-standing animosity.

idiom. in cold blood Deliberately, coldly, and dispassionately.

idiom. in (one's) blood So characteristic as to seem inherited or passed down by family tradition.

n. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

n. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. (See blood relative, blood relation, by blood.)

n. A blood test or blood sample.

n. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.

v. To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.

v. To let blood (from); to bleed.

v. To initiate into warfare or a blood sport.

n. 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.

n. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.

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

n. Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.

n. The fleshy nature of man.

n. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.

n. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

n. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as if the blood were the seat of emotions.

n. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.

n. The juice of anything, especially if red.

v. To bleed.

v. To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

v. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.

v. To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

n. The fluid which circulates in the arteries and veins.

n. . Blood that is shed; bloodshed; slaughter; murder.

n. The responsibility or guilt of shedding the blood of others.

n. From being popularly regarded as the fluid in which more especially the life resides, as the seat of feelings, passions, hereditary qualities, etc., the word blood has come to be used typically, or with certain associated ideas, in a number of different ways.

n. Fleshly nature; the carnal part of man, as opposed to the spiritual nature or divine life.

n. Temper of mind; natural disposition; high spirit; mettle; passion; anger: in this sense often accompanied with cold or warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood is to do it deliberately and without sudden passion. Hot or warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated; to warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions.

n. A man of fire or spirit; a hot spark; a rake.

n. Persons of any specified race, nationality, or family, considered collectively.

n. Birth; extraction; parentage; breed; absolutely, high birth; good extraction: often qualified by such adjectives as good, base, etc.

n. One who inherits the blood of another; child; collectively, offspring; progeny.

n. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; lineage; kindred; family.

n. That which resembles blood; the juice of anything, especially if red: as, “the blood of grapes,” Gen. xlix. 11.

n. A disease in cattle.

n. A commercial name for red coral.

n. Offspring; progeny; child or children: as, one's own flesh and blood should be preferred to strangers.

n. To be put to death.

To let blood from; bleed by opening a vein.

To stain with blood.

Hence To give a taste of blood; inure to the sight of blood.

To heat the blood of; excite; exasperate.

To victimize; extract money from (a person); bleed.

n.

n. In animal-breeding, and by analogy in plant-breeding, the peculiar character of an individual conceived as transmissible.

In leather-coloring, to apply a coating of blood to, in order to obtain a good black.

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

n. a dissolute man in fashionable society

n. temperament or disposition

n. people viewed as members of a group

n. the descendants of one individual

n. the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets

"Through transubstantiation, the bread and wine consumed by worshipers become the body and blood of Jesus when a priest, acting on Jesus’ behalf, speaks the words “This is my body” and “This is my blood” over them."

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