Толковый словарь английского языка - blood

I. noun Usage: often attributive Etymology: Middle English, from Old English blōd; akin to Old High German bluot ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a. the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body, a comparable fluid of an invertebrate, a fluid resembling ~, the shedding of ~, 3. life~, human stock or lineage, relationship by descent from a common ancestor ; kinship, persons related through common descent ; kindred, e. honorable or high birth or descent, descent from parents of recognized breed or pedigree, 4. ~ regarded as the seat of the emotions ; temper, lust, a showy foppish man ; rake, members of a team, staff, or organization ; personnel , a black American male, II. transitive verb Date: 1540 to stain or wet with ~, bleed 1, to expose (a hunting dog) to sight, scent, or taste of the ~ of its prey, to give experience to