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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. - 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.] - Bloodshed
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder. - BLOODVESSEL
Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein. - Bloodshedder
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer. - BLOODWITEBLOODWIT
A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled. - Bloodshedding
Bloodshed. - Bloodying
of Bloody - BLOODYFLUX
The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot. - Bloodbird
An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird. - Bloodshot
Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.
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