Word Meanings - BLOODSUCKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
- 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. - ANIMALCULARANIMALCULINE
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall. - 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. - Relating
of Relate - BLOODBOLTERED
Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak. - Animalness
Animality. - 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 - BLOODSHOTTEN
Bloodshot. [Obs.] - Animalcular
Alt. of Animalculine - Bloodshed
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
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