Word Meanings - BLOODSHED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

• Murdered
  of Murder
• Taking-off
  Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t.
• 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.
• Humanist
  One of the scholars who in the field of literature proper represented the movement of the Renaissance, and early in the 16th century adopted the name Humanist as their distinctive title.
• Humanistic
  Of or pertaining to humanity; as, humanistic devotion.
• Murdering
  of Murder
• Spilling
  of Spill
• BLOODBOLTERED
  Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.
• 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
• Humanitarian
  Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.
• Murderer
  One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
• Spilled
  of Spill
• BLOODSHOTTEN
  Bloodshot. [Obs.]
• Bloodshed
  The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
• Humanitarianism
  The distinctive tenet of the humanitarians in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

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