Word Meanings - BLOODSTONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

• BLOODYFLUX
  The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
• STONESTILL
  As still as a stone. Shak.
• Callisthenics
  See Calisthenic, Calisthenics.
• Greenback
  One of the legal tender notes of the United States; -- first issued in 1862, and having the devices on the back printed with green ink, to prevent alterations and counterfeits.
• Greenish
  Somewhat green; having a tinge of green; as, a greenish yellow.
• Heliotrope
  An instrument or machine for showing when the sun arrived at the tropics and equinoctial line.
• Stonebird
  The yellowlegs; -- called also stone snipe. See Tattler, 2.
• Blood money
  Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
• Stone-hearted
  Hard-hearted; cruel; pitiless; unfeeling.
• 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
• BLOODYHAND
  A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
• Callithump
  A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns, and other discordant noises; also, a burlesque serenade; a charivari.
• Greenbacker
  One of those who supported greenback or paper money, and opposed the resumption of specie payments.
• Greenlander
  A native of Greenland.
• Heliotroper
  The person at a geodetic station who has charge of the heliotrope.
• Stone-blind
  As blind as a stone; completely blind.
• 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

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