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the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"

the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries waste products away"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"

people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization"

the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"

the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries waste products away"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"

people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization"

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.

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

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

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

The fleshy nature of man.

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

A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

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

The juice of anything, especially if red.

To bleed.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

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

To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

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

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.

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

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

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

The fleshy nature of man.

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

A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.

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

The juice of anything, especially if red.

To bleed.

To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

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

To heat the blood of; to exasperate.

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

The red fluid which circulates in the heart, arteries, and veins of an animal; sometimes, the juice of anything, especially if red; kinship; relationship; descent; lineage; as, a prince of royal blood; a man of fire and spirit; a rake; as, a young blood; temper; as, a murder in cold blood; slaughter or murder.

Fluid coursing through veins, arteries, etc.

The red fluid in the arteries and veins of men and animals: kindred, descent: temperament: bloodshed or murder: the juice of anything, esp. if red. -IN NOT OR COLD BLOOD, under, or free from, excitement or sudden passion. -HALF-BLOOD relationship through one parent only.

The fluid in the veins; consanguinity; bloodshed; passion.

The fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, and veins.

Kinship by descent; lineage; nobility.

Passion; bloodshed.

The fluid circulating in the vascular system of animals, distributing food material and oxygen and collecting waste products.

An animal fluid formed chiefly from the chyle; acquiring important properties during respiration; entering every organ through the circulation; distributing the nutritive principles to every texture, and the source of every secretion. The blood is white in the molluscous and inferior animals, which have been, hence, called white-blooded, to distinguish them from the red-blooded, which class includes the mammalia, birds, reptiles, and fishes. Human blood is composed of water, albumen, fibrin, an animal colouring substance, a little fatty matter-haematelae'um-and different salts; as chlorides of potassium and sodium, phosphate of lime, subcarbonate of soda, lime, magnesia, oxide of iron, and lactate of soda, united with an animal matter. Arterial blood is of a florid red colour, strong smell; s.g. 1.049. Venous blood is of a brownish red; s.g. 1.051. The difference in colour has given occasion to the first being called red blood; the latter, black. The former, which is distributed from the heart, is nearly the same through its whole extent: the latter is the remains of the arterial blood after the different elements have been taken from it in nutrition, and probably differs in composition. It likewise contains different substances absorbed. Venous blood, taken from a vessel and left to itself, becomes solid, and separates into two distinct parts,-the serum or watery supernatant fluid; and the cruor, coag'ulum, crassamen'tum, hepar seu placen'ta san'guinis, placen'ta cruo'ris, in'sula, thrombus, or clot. The serum is chiefly water, holding albumen in solution and the salts of the blood. The clot contains the fibrin, colouring matter-haematosin, a little serum, and a small quantity of salts. M.Le Canu found the blood to be composed-in 1000 parts-of water, 785.590; albumen, 69.415; fibrin, 3.565; colouring matter, 119.626; crystallizable fatty matter, 4.300; oily matter, 2.270; extractive matter soluble in alcohol and water, 1.920; albumen combined with soda, 2.010; chlorides of sodium and potassium; alkaline phosphates, sulphates, and subcarbonates, 7.304; subcarbonate of lime and magnesia, phosphate of lime, magnesia and iron, peroxide of iron, 1.414; loss, 2.586. The four principal components of the blood are fibrin, albumen, corpuscles, and saline matter. In the circulating blood they are thus combined. The following table exhibits the computations of different physiologists regarding the weight of the circulating fluid-arterial and venous. The proportion of arterial blood to venous is about 4 to 9. Much attention has been paid to the varying condition of the blood in disease. The average proportion of each of the organic elements in 1000 parts of healthy blood is as follows, according to Le Canu, and MM. Andral and Gavarret: -fibrin, 3; red corpuscles, 127; solid matter of the serum, 80; water, 790. Dried human blood was, at one time, considered to be anti-epileptic; that of the goat, dried, Sanguis hirci sicca'tus, sudorific and antipleuretic. The dried blood of the ox-Extrac'tum San'guinis Bovi'ni-and the dried red corpuscles have been given as analeptics, especially where there was a deficiency of red corpuscles.

The fluid which circulates through the heart, arteries, and veins.

n. [Anglo-Saxon] The fluid which circulates through the arteries and veins of men and animals;—the juice of any thing reddish;—relation; consanguinity;—lineage; honourable birth;—murder;—temper of mind; disposition;—excited feeling; passion;—a man of fiery spirits; a rake.

The red liquor that circulates in the bodies of animals; child; progeny; family, kindred; descent, lineage; birth, high extraction; murder, violent death; temper of mind, state of the passions; hot spark; man of fire.