Word Meanings - UNBLOODY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. A sacrifice in which no victim is slain. The Mass.

Related words: (words related to UNBLOODY)

• SACRIFICE
  1. The offering of anything to God, or to a god; consecratory rite. Great pomp, and sacrifice, and praises loud, To Dagon. Milton. 2. Anything consecrated and offered to God, or to a divinity; an immolated victin, or an offering of any kind, laid
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• UNBLOODY
  Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. A sacrifice in which no victim is slain. The Mass.
• BLOODY SWEAT
  A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
• BLOODY FLUX
  The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.
• BLOODY HAND
  A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom. (more info) 1. A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's
• BLOODYBONES
  A terrible bugbear.
• SACRIFICER
  One who sacrifices.
• VICTIMATE
  To make a victim of; to sacrifice; to immolate. Bullokar.
• BLOODY
  1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat. 2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief. 3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel,
• VICTIMIZE
  To make a victim of, esp. by deception; to dupe; to cheat.
• VICTIM
  1. A living being sacrificed to some deity, or in the performance of a religious rite; a creature immolated, or made an offering of. Led like a victim, to my death I'll go. Dryden. 2. A person or thing destroyed or sacrificed in the pursuit of
• BEBLOOD; BEBLOODY
  To make bloody; to stain with blood. Sheldon.
• PURSLAIN
  See PURSLANE
• SELF-SACRIFICE
  The act of sacrificing one's self, or one's interest, for others; self-devotion.