Blood-shotten adjective Bloodshot. [ Obsolete]

Bloodless adjective [ Anglo-Saxon bl...dleás .]
1. Destitute of blood, or apparently so; as, bloodless cheeks; lifeless; dead.

The bloodless carcass of my Hector sold.
Dryden.

2. Not attended with shedding of blood, or slaughter; as, a bloodless victory. Froude.

3. Without spirit or activity.

Thou bloodless remnant of that royal blood !
Shak.

-- Blood"less*ly , adverb -- Blood"less*ness , noun

Bloodlet transitive verb [ Anglo-Saxon bl...dl...tan ; bl...d blood + l...atan to let.] bleed; to let blood. Arbuthnot.

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

Bloodletting noun (Medicine) 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.

Bloodroot noun (Botany) 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 .

» In England the name is given to the tormentil, once used as a remedy for dysentery.

Bloodshed noun [ Blood + shed ] The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

Bloodshedder noun One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

Bloodshedding noun Bloodshed. Shak.

Bloodshot adjective [ Blood + shot , past participle of shoot to variegate.] Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.

His eyes were bloodshot , . . . and his hair disheveled.
Dickens.

Bloodstick noun (Far.) A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

Bloodstone noun (Min.) (a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope . (b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or "streak."

Bloodstroke noun [ Confer French coup de sang .] Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

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

2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. [ Obsolete] Shak.

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

Bloodthirsty adjective Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous. -- Blood"thirst`i*ness noun

Bloodulf noun (Zoology) The European bullfinch.

Bloodwite, Bloodwit noun [ Anglo-Saxon bl...wīte ; bl...d blood, + wīte wite, fine.] (Anc. Law) A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

Bloodwood noun (Botany) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree ( Baloghia lucida ), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia Hæmatoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus ; also the true logwood ( Hæmatoxylon campechianum ).

Bloodwort noun (Botany) A plant, Rumex sanguineus , or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot ( Sanguinaria Canadensis ), and to an extensive order of plants ( Hæmodoraceæ ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

Bloody adjective [ Anglo-Saxon blōdig .]
1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.

3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
Shak.

4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [ Vulgar] Thackeray.

Bloody transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bloodied ; present participle & verbal noun Bloodying .] To stain with blood. Overbury.

Bloody flux The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.

Bloody hand
1. A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. Jacob.

2. (Her.) A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.

Bloody sweat A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness , formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

Bloody-minded adjective Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.

Bloodybones noun A terrible bugbear.

Bloom noun [ Middle English blome , from Icelandic bl...m , bl...mi ; akin to Swedish blom , Goth. bl...ma , Old Saxon bl...mo , Dutch bloem , Old High German bluomo , bluoma , German blume ; from the same root as Anglo-Saxon bl...wan to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and confer Blossom .]
1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

The rich blooms of the tropics.
Prescott.

2. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom . "Sight of vernal bloom ." Milton.

3. A state or time of beauty, freshness, and vigor; an opening to higher perfection, analogous to that of buds into blossoms; as, the bloom of youth.

Every successive mother has transmitted a fainter bloom , a more delicate and briefer beauty.
Hawthorne.

4. The delicate, powdery coating upon certain growing or newly-gathered fruits or leaves, as on grapes, plums, etc. Hence: Anything giving an appearance of attractive freshness; a flush; a glow.

A new, fresh, brilliant world, with all the bloom upon it.
Thackeray.

5. The clouded appearance which varnish sometimes takes upon the surface of a picture.

6. A yellowish deposit or powdery coating which appears on well-tanned leather. Knight.

7. (Min.) A popular term for a bright-hued variety of some minerals; as, the rose-red cobalt bloom .

Bloom intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Bloomed ; present participle & verbal noun Blooming .]
1. To produce or yield blossoms; to blossom; to flower or be in flower.

A flower which once
In Paradise, fast by the tree of life,
Began to bloom .
Milton.

2. To be in a state of healthful, growing youth and vigor; to show beauty and freshness, as of flowers; to give promise, as by or with flowers.

A better country blooms to view,

Beneath a brighter sky.
Logan.

Bloom transitive verb
1. To cause to blossom; to make flourish. [ R.]

Charitable affection bloomed them.
Hooker.

2. To bestow a bloom upon; to make blooming or radiant. [ R.] Milton.

While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day.
Keats.

Bloom noun [ Anglo-Saxon bl...ma a mass or lump, īsenes bl...ma a lump or wedge of iron.] (Metal.) (a) A mass of wrought iron from the Catalan forge or from the puddling furnace, deprived of its dross, and shaped usually in the form of an oblong block by shingling. (b) A large bar of steel formed directly from an ingot by hammering or rolling, being a preliminary shape for further working.

Bloomary noun See Bloomery .

Bloomer noun [ From Mrs. Bloomer , an American, who sought to introduce this style of dress.]
1. A costume for women, consisting of a short dress, with loose trousers gathered round ankles, and (commonly) a broad-brimmed hat.

2. A woman who wears a Bloomer costume.

Bloomery noun (Manuf.) A furnace and forge in which wrought iron in the form of blooms is made directly from the ore, or (more rarely) from cast iron.

Blooming noun (Metal.) The process of making blooms from the ore or from cast iron.

Blooming adjective
1. Opening in blossoms; flowering.

2. Thriving in health, beauty, and vigor; indicating the freshness and beauties of youth or health.

Bloomingly adverb In a blooming manner.

Bloomingness noun A blooming condition.

Bloomless adjective Without bloom or flowers. Shelley.

Bloomy adjective
1. Full of bloom; flowery; flourishing with the vigor of youth; as, a bloomy spray.

But all the bloomy flush of life is fled.
Goldsmith.

2. Covered with bloom, as fruit. Dryden.

Blooth noun Bloom; a blossoming. [ Prov. Eng.]

All that blooth means heavy autumn work for him and his hands.
T. Hardy.

Blore noun [ Perh. a variant of blare , intransitive verb ; or confer Gael. & Ir. blor a loud noise.] The act of blowing; a roaring wind; a blast. [ Obsolete]

A most tempestuous blore .
Chapman.

Blosmy adjective Blossomy. [ Obsolete] Chaucer.

Blossom (blŏs"sŭm) noun [ Middle English blosme , blostme , Anglo-Saxon blōsma , blōstma , blossom; akin to Dutch bloesem , Latin fios , and English flower ; from the root of English blow to blossom. See Blow to blossom, and confer Bloom a blossom.]
1. The flower of a plant, or the essential organs of reproduction, with their appendages; florescence; bloom; the flowers of a plant, collectively; as, the blossoms and fruit of a tree; an apple tree in blossom .

» The term has been applied by some botanists, and is also applied in common usage, to the corolla . It is more commonly used than flower or bloom , when we have reference to the fruit which is to succeed. Thus we use flowers when we speak of plants cultivated for ornament, and bloom in a more general sense, as of flowers in general, or in reference to the beauty of flowers.

Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day.
Longfellow.

2. A blooming period or stage of development; something lovely that gives rich promise.

In the blossom of my youth.
Massinger.

3. The color of a horse that has white hairs intermixed with sorrel and bay hairs; -- otherwise called peach color .

In blossom , having the blossoms open; in bloom.

Blossom intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Blossomed ; present participle & verbal noun Blossoming .] [ Anglo-Saxon bl...stmian . See Blossom , noun ]
1. To put forth blossoms or flowers; to bloom; to blow; to flower.

The moving whisper of huge trees that branched
And blossomed .
Tennyson.

2. To flourish and prosper.

Israel shall blossom and bud, and full the face of the world with fruit.
Isa. xxvii. 6.

Blossomless adjective Without blossoms.

Blossomy adjective Full of blossoms; flowery.

Blot transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Blotted ; present participle & verbal noun Blotting .] [ Confer Danish plette . See 3d Blot .]

1. To spot, stain, or bespatter, as with ink.

The brief was writ and blotted all with gore.
Gascoigne.

2. To impair; to damage; to mar; to soil.

It blots thy beauty, as frosts do bite the meads.
Shak.

3. To stain with infamy; to disgrace.

Blot not thy innocence with guiltless blood.
Rowe.

4. To obliterate, as writing with ink; to cancel; to efface; -- generally with out ; as, to blot out a word or a sentence. Often figuratively; as, to blot out offenses.

One act like this blots out a thousand crimes.
Dryden.

5. To obscure; to eclipse; to shadow.

He sung how earth blots the moon's gilded wane.
Cowley.

6. To dry, as writing, with blotting paper.

Syn. -- To obliterate; expunge; erase; efface; cancel; tarnish; disgrace; blur; sully; smear; smutch.

Blot intransitive verb To take a blot; as, this paper blots easily.

Blot noun [ Confer Icelandic blettr , Danish plet .]
1. A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.

2. An obliteration of something written or printed; an erasure. Dryden.

3. A spot on reputation; a stain; a disgrace; a reproach; a blemish.

This deadly blot in thy digressing son.
Shak.

Blot noun [ Confer Danish blot bare, naked, Swedish blott , d. bloot, German bloss , and perhaps English bloat .]
1. (Backgammon) (a) An exposure of a single man to be taken up. (b) A single man left on a point, exposed to be taken up.

He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may be so easily hit.
Dryden.

2. A weak point; a failing; an exposed point or mark.