Word Meanings - BLOODLETTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• BLOODVESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• 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.
• 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
• BLOODWITEBLOODWIT
  A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
• BLOODYFLUX
  The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
• BLOODYHAND
  A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
• Bloodshedder
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• Bloodying
  of Bloody
• BLOODYMINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• Bloodshedding
  Bloodshed.
• Bloodybones
  A terrible bugbear.
• BLOODYSWEAT
  A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

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