Word Meanings - BLOODVESSEL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.

• Bloodletter
  One who, or that which, lets blood; a phlebotomist.
• Bloodwite
  Alt. of Bloodwit
• Canaliculi
  of Canaliculus
• BLOODYMINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• Animalize
  To endow with the properties of an animal; to represent in animal form.
• Bloodletting
  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.
• Bloodwit
  A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
• Canaliculus
  A minute canal.
• BLOODYSWEAT
  A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
• Animalness
  Animality.
• Blood money
  Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
• Bloodwood
  A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
• Canalization
  Construction of, or furnishing with, a canal or canals.
• CANALCOAL
  See Cannel coal.
• Bloodroot
  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 rootstoc
• Bloodwort
  A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Haemodoraceae), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyein

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