<B>bloodthirsty, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> eager for bloodshed; cruel and murderous. <BR> <I>Ex. a bloodthirsty pirate. The Lord will abhor both the bloodthirsty and deceitful man (Book of Common Prayer).</I> adv. <B>bloodthirstily.</B> noun <B>bloodthirstiness.</B> </DL>
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<B>blood transfusion,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the injection of blood from one person or animal into another. <BR> <I>Ex. He had a blood transfusion after the operation.</I> </DL>
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<B>blood type,</B> =blood group.</DL>
<A NAME="bloodtype">
<B>blood-type, </B>transitive verb, <B>-typed,</B> <B>-typing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to classify (the blood) according to type or (persons) according to blood group. </DL>
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<B>blood vengeance,</B> =blood revenge.</DL>
<A NAME="bloodvessel">
<B>blood vessel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any tube in the body through which the blood circulates. Arteries, veins, and capillaries are blood vessels. </DL>
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<B>bloodwood, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various trees with red wood or red sap, such as the logwood. </DL>
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<B>bloodworm, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any of various soft, reddish worms used as bait. <DD><B> 2. </B>the red larva of certain flies and midges. <DD><B> 3. </B>a parasitic organism in the blood. </DL>
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<B>bloodwort, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any plant of the bloodwort family. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of several other plants with red roots, stems, or leaves, such as the bloodroot, dock, and hawkweed. </DL>
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<B>bloodwort family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small group of monocotyledonous, perennial, herbaceous plants, most species of which have red roots, such as the North American redroot. </DL>
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<B>bloody, </B>adjective, <B>bloodier,</B> <B>bloodiest,</B> verb, <B>bloodied,</B> <B>bloodying,</B> adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>covered with blood; bleeding. <BR> <I>Ex. He got a bloody nose in the fight.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>stained with blood. <BR> <I>Ex. His shirt was bloody down the front.</I> (SYN) gory. <DD><B> 3. </B>accompanied by much killing; with much bloodshed. <BR> <I>Ex. It was a bloody battle.</I> (SYN) sanguinary. <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) eager for bloodshed; bloodthirsty; cruel. <BR> <I>Ex. a foul and bloody deed. The Lord will abhor the bloody and deceitful man (Psalms 5:6).</I> (SYN) murderous. <DD><B> 5. </B>having the color of blood. <BR> <I>Ex. The bloody Sun, at noon, Right up above the mast did stand (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(British Slang.) cursed; confounded. <BR> <I>Ex. He's a bloody fool.</I> (SYN) damned. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause to bleed. <BR> <I>Ex. He bloodied his nose in the fall.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to stain with blood. <BR> <I>Ex. His pants leg was torn and bloodied when he fell. The sword which was drawn (not bloodied, I hope) in this unlucky quarrel (Robert Southey).</I> <DD><I>adv. </I> (British Slang.) very. <BR> <I>Ex. Do what he says? Not bloody likely!</I> adv. <B>bloodily.</B> noun <B>bloodiness.</B> </DL>
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<B>Bloody Mary,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a mixed alcoholic drink consisting of tomato juice, vodka or gin, lemon or lime juice, and various seasonings. </DL>
<A NAME="bloodyminded">
<B>bloody-minded, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Especially British Slang.) perversely stubborn or contrary; bullheaded. <BR> <I>Ex. He's too bloody-minded to cooperate willingly.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=bloodthirsty.</B> noun <B>bloodymindedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="bloodymurder">
<B>bloody murder,</B> =blue murder.</DL>
<A NAME="bloodyshirt">
<B>bloody shirt,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) something used to stir people to vengeance. </DL>
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<B>blooey, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) out of order; askew. <BR> <I>Ex. His compass must've gone blooey ... (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>bloom</B> (1), verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to have flowers; open into flowers; blossom. <BR> <I>Ex. Many plants bloom in the spring. When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom'd (Walt Whitman).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to be in the condition or time of greatest health, vigor, or beauty; flourish. <BR> <I>Ex. Life bloomed with happiness and hope (Thomas Carlyle).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to become marred with a cloudy or milky appearance. <BR> <I>Ex. Glossy paint tends to bloom in humid weather.</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to cause to flourish or bring into bloom. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) Barr'd clouds bloom the soft-dying day (Keats).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to mar with a cloudy or milky appearance. <BR> <I>Ex. The humidity bloomed the paint and dimmed its luster.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a flower; blossom. <DD><B> 2. </B>flowers collectively. <DD><B> 3. </B>the condition or time of flowering. <BR> <I>Ex. violets in bloom.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>the condition or time of greatest health, vigor, or beauty. <BR> <I>Ex. She was in the bloom of youth.</I> (SYN) freshness, prime. <DD><B> 5. </B>a glow of health or beauty. <BR> <I>Ex. the bloom of health and happiness.</I> (SYN) flush. <DD><B> 6. </B>a coating like fine powder on some fruits and leaves. There is bloom on grapes and plums. <DD><B> 7a. </B>any of various similar surface coatings. <BR> <I>Ex. the bloom on new coins.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative:) <BR> <I>Ex. [Charm is] a sort of bloom on a woman (James M. Barrie).</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>a cloudy or milky appearance on a film of varnish, paint, or the like. <DD><B> 9. </B>(Zoology.) a dense mass of very small, aquatic organisms, such as plankton, easily visible to the eye. noun <B>bloomer.</B> </DL>
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<B>bloom</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a thick bar of iron or steel with rounded corners, rolled or hammered from an ingot and left for further rolling when required for use. <DD><B> 2. </B>an unmelted, spongy mass of wrought iron from the puddling furnace or forge. <DD><B> 3. </B>an ingot of steel shaped into a block with a cross-sectional area greater than 36 square inches. <DD><B> 4. </B>the first bar produced in the rolling of an aluminum ingot. </DL>
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<B>bloomer</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a style of female attire in the mid-1800's consisting of long, loose trousers gathered closely around the ankles, and worn with a short skirt. </DL>
<A NAME="bloomer">
<B>bloomer</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang, Especially British.) a blunder; mistake. </DL>
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<B>bloomers, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>loose trousers, gathered at the knee, formerly worn by women and girls for physical training, sports, and the like. <DD><B> 2. </B>underwear made like these. </DL>
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<B>bloomery, </B>noun, pl. <B>-eries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a furnace and forge for making blooms, especially one where the wrought iron is obtained directly from the ore by a crude, primitive process. </DL>
<A NAME="blooming">
<B>blooming, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>having flowers; blossoming. <BR> <I>Ex. blooming shrubs.</I> (SYN) efflorescent. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) flourishing. <BR> <I>Ex. In the blooming bull market of the past half dozen years, stock oysters have brought many executives immense profits (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(British Slang.) (as an intensive only) confounded. <BR> <I>Ex. a blooming idiot, not a blooming chance. When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre (Rudyard Kipling).</I> adv. <B>bloomingly.</B> </DL>
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<B>blooming mill,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a rolling mill which reduces steel ingots into blooms, in preparation for further treatment. </DL>
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<B>Bloomsbury, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a literary and intellectual circle formed in the Bloomsbury section of London about 1905 and lasting to about 1930. <BR> <I>Ex. Real luster derived from England's ... Bloomsbury group: Lytton Strachey, Virginia Woolf, John Maynard Keynes, E. M. Forster, Clive Bell (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="bloomy">
<B>bloomy, </B>adjective, <B>bloomier,</B> <B>bloomiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> having the surface covered with bloom, as a plum. </DL>
<A NAME="bloop">
<B>bloop, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=blooper.</B> <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> (Baseball.) to make or hit (a blooper). </DL>
<A NAME="blooper">
<B>blooper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a very foolish mistake; boner. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Baseball.) a fly which falls beyond the normal positions of the infielders and short of those of the outfielders. </DL>
<A NAME="blossom">
<B>blossom, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a flower, especially of a plant that produces fruit. <BR> <I>Ex. apple blossoms.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the condition or time of flowering. <BR> <I>Ex. The cherry trees are in blossom.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(British Slang.) a woman (used ironically). <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to have flowers; open into flowers. <BR> <I>Ex. All the orchards blossom in spring.</I> (SYN) bloom, flower. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) to open out; develop. <BR> <I>Ex. She blossomed into a beautiful girl. Her musical talent blossomed early.</I> adj. <B>blossomless.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="blossomy">
<B>blossomy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> full of blossoms. <BR> <I>Ex. a blossomy valley.</I> </DL>
