Word Meanings - BLOODSUCKER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

• ANIMALCULARANIMALCULINE
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, animalcules. "Animalcular life." Tyndall.
• 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.
• BLOODBOLTERED
  Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.
• 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
• BLOODSHOTTEN
  Bloodshot. [Obs.]
• 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
• BLOODVESSEL
  Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
• 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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