Word Meanings - HORSEFLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any dipterous fly of the family Tabanidae, that stings horses, and sucks their blood.

• 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.
• BLOODBOLTERED
  Having the hair matted with clotted blood. [Obs. & R.] The blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me. Shak.
• BLOODSHOTTEN
  Bloodshot. [Obs.]
• 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.
• Bloodshed
  The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.
• BLOODWITEBLOODWIT
  A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
• Bloodshedder
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• BLOODYFLUX
  The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
• Bloodshedding
  Bloodshed.
• Bloodying
  of Bloody
• BLOODYHAND
  A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
• Bloodbird
  An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.

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