Word Meanings - BLOODWIT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

• SPILLETFISHINGSPILLIARDFISHING
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• 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.
• Bloodwood
  A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
• Blood money
  Money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been killed by another.
• 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
• Spillet fishing
  Alt. of Spilliard fishing
• Amercement
  The infliction of a penalty at the discretion of the court; also, a mulct or penalty thus imposed. It differs from a fine,in that the latter is, or was originally, a fixed and certain sum prescribed by statue for an offense; but an amercement is a
• 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
• Spilliard fishing
  A system or method of fishing by means of a number of hooks set on snoods all on one line; -- in North America, called trawl fishing, bultow, or bultow fishing, and long-line fishing.
• Bloodshed
  The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
• Spillikin
  See Spilikin.
• Bloodshedder
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• Bloodying
  of Bloody

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