English English Dictionary

Without spirit or activity.

Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.

bleed; to let blood.

One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

A plant (Sanguinaria Canadensis), with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant expectorant. See Sanguinaria.

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

Bloodshed.

Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or "streak."

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain.

One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer.

Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an extortioner.

Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous.

The European bullfinch.

A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.