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Bloods
(gcide) | Gang \Gang\, n. [Icel. gangr a going, gang, akin to AS., D., G.,
& Dan. gang a going, Goth. gaggs street, way. See Gang, v.
i.]
1. A going; a course. [Obs.]
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2. A number going in company; hence, a company, or a number
of persons associated for a particular purpose; a group of
laborers under one foreman; a squad; as, a gang of
sailors; a chain gang; a gang of thieves.
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3. A combination of similar implements arranged so as, by
acting together, to save time or labor; a set; as, a gang
of saws, or of plows.
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4. (Naut.) A set; all required for an outfit; as, a new gang
of stays.
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5. [Cf. Gangue.] (Mining) The mineral substance which
incloses a vein; a matrix; a gangue.
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6. A group of teenagers or young adults forming a more or
less formalized group associating for social purposes, in
some cases requiring initiation rites to join; as, a teen
gang; a youth gang; a street gang.
Note: Youth gangs often associate with particular areas in a
city, and may turn violent when they feel their
territory is encroached upon. In Los Angeles the
Crips and the Bloods are large gangs antagonistic
to each other.
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7. A group of persons organized for criminal purposes; a
criminal organization; as, the Parker gang.
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Gang board, or Gang plank. (Naut.)
(a) A board or plank, with cleats for steps, forming a
bridge by which to enter or leave a vessel.
(b) A plank within or without the bulwarks of a vessel's
waist, for the sentinel to walk on.
Gang cask, a small cask in which to bring water aboard
ships or in which it is kept on deck.
Gang cultivator, Gang plow, a cultivator or plow in which
several shares are attached to one frame, so as to make
two or more furrows at the same time.
Gang days, Rogation days; the time of perambulating
parishes. See Gang week (below).
Gang drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills
driven from a common shaft.
Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen.
Gang plank. See Gang board (above).
Gang plow. See Gang cultivator (above).
Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of
objects separated by intervening plates.
Gang saw, a saw fitted to be one of a combination or gang
of saws hung together in a frame or sash, and set at fixed
distances apart.
Gang tide. See Gang week (below).
Gang tooth, a projecting tooth. [Obs.] --Halliwell.
Gang week, Rogation week, when formerly processions were
made to survey the bounds of parishes. --Halliwell.
Live gang, or Round gang, the Western and the Eastern
names, respectively, for a gang of saws for cutting the
round log into boards at one operation. --Knight.
Slabbing gang, an arrangement of saws which cuts slabs from
two sides of a log, leaving the middle part as a thick
beam.
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bloods-and-guts
(encz) | bloods-and-guts,krev a střeva Pavel Machek |
bloodshed
(encz) | bloodshed,krveprolití Zdeněk Brož |
bloodshot
(encz) | bloodshot,krví podlitý |
bloodsport
(encz) | bloodsport,myslivost n: Zdeněk Brož |
bloodstain
(encz) | bloodstain,skvrna od krve Zdeněk Brož |
bloodstained
(encz) | bloodstained,potřísněný krví adj: Zdeněk Brož |
bloodstains
(encz) | bloodstains,skvrny od krve Zdeněk Brož |
bloodstock
(encz) | bloodstock,plnokrevníci n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
bloodstone
(encz) | bloodstone,druh nerostu Zdeněk Brožbloodstone,krevel n: Zdeněk Brož |
bloodstream
(encz) | bloodstream,krevní oběh Zdeněk Brož |
bloodsucker
(encz) | bloodsucker,pijavice n: Zdeněk Brožbloodsucker,vyděrač n: Zdeněk Brož |
without bloodshed
(encz) | without bloodshed, adv: |
Bloodshed
(gcide) | Bloodshed \Blood"shed`\, n. [Blood + shed]
The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of
shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or
murder.
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Bloodshedder
(gcide) | Bloodshedder \Blood"shed`der\, n.
One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
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Bloodshedding
(gcide) | Bloodshedding \Blood"shed`ding\, n.
Bloodshed. --Shak.
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Bloodshot
(gcide) | Bloodshot \Blood"shot`\, a. [Blood + shot, p. p. of shoot to
variegate.]
Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels
turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or
irritated.
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His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled.
--Dickens.
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Blood-shotten
(gcide) | Blood-shotten \Blood"-shot`ten\, a.
Bloodshot. [Obs.]
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bloodstained
(gcide) | bloodstained \bloodstained\ adj.
stained with blood; as, a bloodstained shirt; a bloodstained
carpet; a bloodstained sidewalk.
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Bloodstick
(gcide) | Bloodstick \Blood"stick"\, n. (Far.)
A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to
strike the fleam into the vein. --Youatt.
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bloodstock
(gcide) | bloodstock \bloodstock\ n.
thoroughbred horses (collectively).
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bloodstone
(gcide) | Hematite \Hem"a*tite\, n. [L. haematites, Gr. ? bloodlike, fr.
a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.] (Min.)
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because
of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent
rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; --
the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron,
oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone.
See Brown hematite, under Brown.
[1913 Webster]Bloodstone \Blood"stone`\, n. (Min.)
(a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if
with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.
(b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or
"streak."
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Bloodstone
(gcide) | Hematite \Hem"a*tite\, n. [L. haematites, Gr. ? bloodlike, fr.
a"i^ma, a"i`matos, blood.] (Min.)
An important ore of iron, the sesquioxide, so called because
of the red color of the powder. It occurs in splendent
rhombohedral crystals, and in massive and earthy forms; --
the last called red ocher. Called also specular iron,
oligist iron, rhombohedral iron ore, and bloodstone.
See Brown hematite, under Brown.
[1913 Webster]Bloodstone \Blood"stone`\, n. (Min.)
(a) A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if
with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.
(b) Hematite, an ore of iron yielding a blood red powder or
"streak."
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Bloodstroke
(gcide) | Bloodstroke \Blood"stroke`\, n. [Cf. F. coup de sang.]
Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in
the brain. --Dunglison.
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Bloodsucker
(gcide) | Bloodsucker \Blood"suck`er\, n.
1. (Zool.) Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech
(Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.
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2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty
of bloodshed; a murderer. [Obs.] --Shak.
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3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
extortioner.
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bloodsucking
(gcide) | bloodsucking \bloodsucking\ adj.
1. drawing blood from the body of another; as, a plague of
bloodsucking insects.
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2. having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living
off another; -- of plants or persons; as, a bloodsucking
blackmailer; bloodsucking lawyers.
Syn: parasitic, parasitical, leechlike.
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parasitic parasitical leechlike bloodsucking
(gcide) | Dependent \De*pend"ent\, a. [L. dependens, -entis, p. pr.
dependere. See Depend, and cf. Dependant.]
1. Hanging down; as, a dependent bough or leaf.
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2. Relying on, or subject to, something else for support; not
able to exist, or sustain itself, or to perform anything,
without the will, power, or aid of something else; not
self-sustaining; subordinate; -- often with on or upon;
as, dependent on God; dependent upon friends. Opposite of
independent. [Narrower terms: {interdependent,
mutualist, mutually beneficial}; {parasitic, parasitical,
leechlike, bloodsucking}; subordinate; underage;
myrmecophilous; symbiotic] Also See: unfree.
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England, long dependent and degraded, was again a
power of the first rank. --Macaulay.
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3. conditional; contingent or conditioned. Opposite of
unconditional.
Syn: qualified.
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4. addicted to drugs.
Syn: addicted, dependent, drug-addicted, hooked, strung-out.
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Dependent covenant or Dependent contract (Law), one not
binding until some connecting stipulation is performed.
Dependent variable (Math.), a varying quantity whose
changes are arbitrary, but are regarded as produced by
changes in another variable, which is called the
independent variable.
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bloodshed
(wn) | bloodshed
n 1: the shedding of blood resulting in murder; "he avenged the
bloodshed of his kinsmen" [syn: bloodshed, gore]
2: indiscriminate slaughter; "a bloodbath took place when the
leaders of the plot surrendered"; "ten days after the
bloodletting Hitler gave the action its name"; "the valley is
no stranger to bloodshed and murder"; "a huge prison battue
was ordered" [syn: bloodbath, bloodletting, bloodshed,
battue] |
bloodshot
(wn) | bloodshot
adj 1: (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested
blood vessels; inflamed; "bloodshot eyes" |
bloodstain
(wn) | bloodstain
n 1: a discoloration caused by blood |
bloodstained
(wn) | bloodstained
adj 1: covered with blood; "a bloodstained shirt"; "a gory
dagger" [syn: bloodstained, gory] |
bloodstock
(wn) | bloodstock
n 1: thoroughbred horses (collectively) |
bloodstone
(wn) | bloodstone
n 1: green chalcedony with red spots that resemble blood [syn:
bloodstone, heliotrope] |
bloodstream
(wn) | bloodstream
n 1: the blood flowing through the circulatory system [syn:
bloodstream, blood stream] |
bloodsucker
(wn) | bloodsucker
n 1: carnivorous or bloodsucking aquatic or terrestrial worms
typically having a sucker at each end [syn: leech,
bloodsucker, hirudinean] |
bloodsucking
(wn) | bloodsucking
adj 1: drawing blood from the body of another; "a plague of
bloodsucking insects"
2: of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a
parasite or leech; living off another; "a wealthy class
parasitic upon the labor of the masses"; "parasitic vines
that strangle the trees"; "bloodsucking blackmailer"; "his
indolent leechlike existence" [syn: parasitic,
parasitical, leechlike, bloodsucking] |
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