Bloodwood
(Blood"wood) n. (Bot.) A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia Hæmatoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( Hæmatoxylon campechianum).

Bloodwort
(Blood"wort`) n. (Bot.) A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot and to an extensive order of plants the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

Bloody
(Blood"y) a. [AS. blodig.]

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, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.

Some bloody passion shakes your very frame.
Shak.

4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.

5. Infamous; contemptible; — variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [Vulgar] Thackeray.

Bloody
(Blood"y), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bloodied ; p. pr. & vb. n. Bloodying.] To stain with blood. Overbury.

Bloodybones
(Blood"y*bones`) n. A terrible bugbear.

Bloody flux
(Blood"y flux`) The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.

Bloody hand
(Blood"y hand`)

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 trespass in the forest against venison. Jacob.

2. (Her.) A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.

Bloody-minded
(Blood"y-mind"ed) a. Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.

Bloody sweat
(Blood"y sweat`) A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

Bloom
(Bloom) n. [OE. blome, fr. Icel. blm, blmi; akin to Sw. blom, Goth. blma, OS. blmo, D. bloem, OHG. bluomo, bluoma, G. blume; fr. the same root as AS. blwan to blow, blossom. See Blow to bloom, and cf. Blossom.]

1. A blossom; the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively.

The rich blooms of the tropics.
Prescott.

2. The opening of flowers in general; the state of blossoming or of having the flowers open; as, the cherry trees are in bloom. "Sight of vernal bloom." Milton.


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