Word: blood Part of Speech: noun Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic inh Proto-West Germanic gem-pro>*blōþą>blood Proto-West Germanic *blōd Old English blōd Middle English blood English blood From Middle English blood, from Old English blōd, from Proto-West Germanic *blōd, from Proto-Germanic *blōþą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- ("to swell") + -ó- (thematic vowel) + -to (nominalizer), i.e. "that which bursts out". Cognate with Scots blude, bluid (“blood”), North Frisian blud, blödj, Blör (“blood”), Saterland Frisian Bloud (“blood”), West Frisian bloed (“blood”), Cimbrian pluat, pluut (“blood”), Dutch bloed (“blood”), German Blut (“blood”), German Low German Blood, Bloot (“blood”), Luxembourgish Blutt (“blood”), Vilamovian błüt (“blood”), Yiddish בלוט (blut, “blood”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish blod (“blood”), Faroese and Icelandic blóð (“blood”), Crimean Gothic plut (“blood”), Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐌸 (blōþ, “blood”). Pronunciation: /blʌd/, /blʊd/ 1. A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: Some insects are known for consuming blood. Example: Blood started to spurt out of his hand due to the wound. 2. A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption. See blood relative, blood relation. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: a friend of our own blood Example: to share the blood of Saxon royalty 3. A person or people related to one by birth; one's biological relative or relatives. Labels: uncountable Example: She may not be my blood, but we grew up together, and as far as I'm concerned she's my sister. Example: An' one time a little girl 'ud allus laugh an' grin, / An' make fun of ever' one, an' all her blood an' kin; / An' onc't when they was "company," an' ole folks was there, / She mocked 'em an' shocked 'em, an' said she didn't care! 4. One of the four humours in the human body. Labels: countable, historical, uncountable 5. The endometrial lining as it is shed in menstruation; menstrual fluid or period blood. Labels: countable, uncountable 6. A blood test or blood sample. Labels: countable, informal Example: When I got Bilbo to their surgery the vet took Bilbo in for tests. […] His bloods showed nothing wrong at all. 7. The sap or juice which flows in or from plants. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: It is no tautology to call the blood of the grape red or purple, because the juice of that fruit was sometimes white and sometimes black or dark. The arterial blood of our bodies is red, but the venous is called "black blood." Example: Disbudding is merely a species of pruning, and should be done as soon as the lateral buds begin to develop on the cane. It diverts the flow of the plant's blood from many buds into one or a few, thus increasing the size of the flower, [...] 8. The juice of anything, especially if red. Labels: countable, poetic, uncountable Example: He washed[…]his clothes in the blood of grapes. 9. A temper of mind; a disposition; a mood. Labels: countable, uncountable Example: When thou perceive his blood inclined to mirth Example: Hath Cassius liu'd / To be but Mirth and Laughter to his Brutus, / When greefe and blood ill temper'd, vexeth him? 10. A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy. Labels: countable, obsolete, uncountable Example: Seest thou not[…]how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty? Example: […] it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood of those days […] 11. A blood horse, one of good pedigree. Labels: countable, uncountable 12. Bloodshed. Labels: countable, figuratively, uncountable Example: They came looking for blood. Example: Our Father’s Death Would fill up all the Guilt of Civil War, And cloſe the Scene of Blood. 13. A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male. Labels: countable, uncountable 14. Alternative letter-case form of Blood (“a member of a certain gang”). Labels: alt-of, countable, uncountable 15. Alternative form of blud (“an informal address to a male.”). Labels: Multicultural-London-English, UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, slang, uncountable Example: Blood I swear she just gave man extra chicken? Two fat pieces of chicken. 16. Lean, especially that is red. Labels: US, countable, slang, uncountable