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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

... a piece of a torn handkerchief with a deep blood-stain on it," pursued Kennedy. "He said it clearly didn't belong to the murdered man, that it indicated that the murderer had himself been wounded in the tussle, but as yet it had proved utterly valueless as a clue. Would I see what I could ...

— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds

... measurement, such as a balance or a thermometer. These are said to be accurate when they give different results for very slightly different stimuli.* A clinical thermometer is accurate when it enables us to detect very slight differences in the temperature of the blood. We may say generally that an instrument is accurate in proportion as it reacts differently to very slightly different stimuli. When a small difference of stimulus produces a great difference of reaction, the instrument is ...

— The Analysis of Mind • Bertrand Russell

... I fancy, lead you farther than you would ever go with me. Times change, and he can teach you how those who would do the most for the Dominion need live to-day. He is also, and I am glad of it, one of us, for traditions do not wholly lose their force and we know that blood will tell. That this year has not ended in disaster irretrievable is due to our ...

— Winston of the Prairie • Harold Bindloss

... were supposed to admit that they were blood brothers after all, and that in the face of a mutual threat you should forget your differences and pool your resources against ...

— Decision • Frank M. Robinson

... such an admixture of the characteristics of both plants and animals, as to render it difficult to decide to which division they properly belong. They are animal in substance, possessed indeed of a stomach, but without the other animal characteristics of blood-vessels, bones, or organs of sense; these creatures live chiefly in water, and are mostly incapable of motion: they increase by buds or excrescences from the parent zoophyte, and if cut off will grow again and multiply; each part becoming ...

— A Catechism of Familiar Things; Their History, and the Events Which Led to Their Discovery • Benziger Brothers

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