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The relation of persons by blood, in distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity.

• BLOODYMINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• 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.
• Lineality
  The quality of being lineal.
• BLOODYSWEAT
  A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
• 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
• 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
• Bloodshed
  The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
• Marriageability
  The quality or state of being marriageable.
• Bloodshedder
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.

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