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Word Meanings - BLOODSHOT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.

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  • BLOODSUCKER
    Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
  • HAVENED
    Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
  • BLOODSHEDDER
    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
  • HAVENER
    A harbor master.
  • INFLAMER
    The person or thing that inflames. Addison.
  • BLOODULF
    The European bullfinch.
  • BLOODROOT
    A plant , 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 rootstock is used as a stimulant
  • HAVELOCK
    A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
  • DISHEVELED
    1. Having in loose disorder; disarranged; as, disheveled hair. 2. Having the hair in loose disorder. The dancing maidens are disheveled Mænads. J. A. Symonds.
  • INFLAMED
    Represented as burning, or as adorned with tongues of flame. (more info) 1. Set on fire; enkindled; heated; congested; provoked; exasperated.
  • CONJUNCTIVAL
    Of or pertaining to the conjunctiva. (more info) 1. Joining; connecting.
  • INFLAMMABILLTY
    Susceptibility of taking fire readily; the state or quality of being inflammable.
  • BLOODY-MINDED
    Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
  • HAVE
    haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
  • BLOODSHEDDING
    Bloodshed. Shak.
  • BLOODINESS
    1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
  • HAVENAGE
    Harbor dues; port dues.
  • HAVEN
    habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
  • HAVANA
    Of or pertaining to Havana, the capital of the island of Cuba; as, an Havana cigar; -- formerly sometimes written Havannah. -- n.
  • INFLAMMABLENESS
    The quality or state of being inflammable; inflammability. Boyle.
  • 'SBLOOD
    An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
  • COUNTERIRRITANT; COUNTERIRRITATION
    See A
  • DISINFLAME
    To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.
  • MISBEHAVE
    To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
  • INSHAVE
    A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
  • HALF-BLOODED
    1. Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep. 2. Degenerate; mean.

 

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