blood
IPA: bɫˈʌd
noun
- 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.
- A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation.
- (historical) One of the four humours in the human body.
- The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid.
- (medicine, informal, countable) A blood test or blood sample.
- The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
- (poetic) The juice of anything, especially if red.
- Temper of mind; disposition; mood
- (obsolete) A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
- A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
- (figurative) Bloodshed.
- (especially African-American Vernacular) A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male.
- A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.
- A surname.
- Alternative letter-case form of Blood (“member of a certain gang”) [A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods, who typically wear red and have an intense and bitter rivalry with the Crips.]
- (UK, MLE, slang) Alternative form of blud (“Informal address to a male.”) [(UK, MLE, slang, Internet slang) Informal address to a man.]
verb
- (transitive) To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
- (medicine, historical) To let blood (from); to bleed.
- (transitive) To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.
- (transitive, obsolete) To make eager for bloodshed or combat; to incite or enrage against.
Advertisement
Examples of "blood" in Sentences
- "This is my blood of the New Testament_;" or "_the New Testament in my blood_."
- Then he said, in a loud voice, "The restoration of Poland requires blood -- blood, and again, _blood_!"
- "Excep '-- a large patch o' blood -- _fresh blood_ -- I touched it -- on one of them ole sacks lyin 'near the cart," said Halsey slowly.
- America have arisen from our blood and tears: -- and will they drive us from our property and homes, which we have earned with our _blood_?
- 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.
- That the body (which is received and eaten,) is the _proper_ and _natural body_ (der rechte natuerliche Leib) of Christ, _which hung upon the cross; _ and the blood (which is drunk) is the _proper_ and _natural blood_ (das rechte natuerliche Blut) _which flowed from the side of Christ_. '
- These tissues are dependent directly upon the condition and contents of the blood, whose office it is to nourish them and which exhibits the wonderful property of conveying to each tissue its selective regenerative materials, _provided of course, that these elements are present at the time in the blood_.
- But they reveal not the secrets of the place, which are known to but One, from whose eye no dark dells or earth-emboweled caves can hide the transgressor; and the tears, the sighs, the blood -- aye, the _blood_ -- of that solitary cavern are all known to Him, are all put down by the recording angel in the archives of heaven.
- The influence which can be exercised on these tissues is exercised through the blood which nourishes all of them alike, and which has the wonderful capacity of carrying to each of them their necessary building and rebuilding, or regenerating materials, -- _provided, of course, that these are, as they should be, present in the blood_.
- _ [377] Christ tried many: he was baptised out of his love, and his love determined not there; he mingled blood with water in his agony, and that determined not his love; he wept pure blood, all his blood at all his eyes, at all his pores, in his flagellation and thorns (_to the Lord our God belonged the issues of blood_), and these expressed, but these did not quench his love.
Advertisement
Advertisement