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Blood brother
(gcide) | Blood \Blood\ (bl[u^]d), n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[=o]d; akin
to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl[=o][thorn], Icel.
bl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E.
blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.]
1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular
system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of
the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted.
See under Arterial.
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Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing
minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the
invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless,
and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all
vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some
colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and
give the blood its uniformly red color. See
Corpuscle, Plasma.
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2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor;
consanguinity; kinship.
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To share the blood of Saxon royalty. --Sir W.
Scott.
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A friend of our own blood. --Waller.
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Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent.
Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother.
In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole
blood. --Bouvier. --Peters.
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3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest
royal lineage.
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Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak.
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I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak.
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4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed;
excellence or purity of breed.
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Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one
half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or
warm blood, is the same as blood.
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5. The fleshy nature of man.
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Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak.
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6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;
manslaughter; destruction.
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So wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
Till blood for blood atones. --Hood.
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7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
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He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries. --Shak.
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8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as
if the blood were the seat of emotions.
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When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
--Shak.
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Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm,
or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in
cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without
sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in
anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or
irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the
passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion
is signified; as, my blood was up.
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9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man;
a rake.
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Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all
the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
--Shak.
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It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
--Thackeray.
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10. The juice of anything, especially if red.
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He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
--Gen. xiix.
11.
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Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first
part of self-explaining compound words; as,
blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling,
blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained,
blood-warm, blood-won.
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Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had
not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in
blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for
literal baptism.
Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody
serum, usually caused by an injury.
Blood brother, brother by blood or birth.
Blood clam (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and
allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast.
So named from the color of its flesh.
Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle.
Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the
separation in a crystalline form of the h[ae]moglobin of
the red blood corpuscles; h[ae]matocrystallin. All blood
does not yield blood crystals.
Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood,
or about 981/2 [deg] Fahr.
Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from
the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
Blood money. See in the Vocabulary.
Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp.
Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused
by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from
without, or the absorption or retention of such as are
produced in the body itself; tox[ae]mia.
Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent.
Blood spavin. See under Spavin.
Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary.
Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families,
which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of
blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic
family.
Flesh and blood.
(a) A blood relation, esp. a child.
(b) Human nature.
In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor.
--Shak.
To let blood. See under Let.
Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue
of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the
sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the
daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood
royal.
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Blood brother
(gcide) | Brother \Broth"er\ (br[u^][th]"[~e]r), n.; pl. Brothers
(br[u^][th]"[~e]rz) or Brethren (br[e^][th]"r[e^]n). See
Brethren. [OE. brother, AS. br[=o][eth]or; akin to OS.
brothar, D. broeder, OHG. pruodar, G. bruder, Icel.
br[=o][eth]ir, Sw. & Dan. broder, Goth. br[=o][thorn]ar, Ir.
brathair, W. brawd, pl. brodyr, Lith. brolis, Lett. brahlis,
Russ. brat', Pol. & Serv. brat, OSlav. bratr[u^], L. frater,
Skr. bhr[=a]t[.r], Zend bratar brother, Gr. fra`thr, fra`twr,
a clansman. The common plural is Brothers; in the solemn
style, Brethren, OE. pl. brether, bretheren, AS. dative
sing. br[=e][eth]er, nom. pl. br[=o][eth]or, br[=o][eth]ru.
[root]258. Cf. Friar, Fraternal.]
1. A male person who has the same father and mother with
another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter
case he is more definitely called a half brother, or
brother of the half blood.
Note: A brother having the same mother but different fathers
is called a uterine brother, and one having the same
father but a different mother is called an {agnate
brother}, or in (Law) a consanguine brother. A
brother having the same father and mother is called a
brother-german or full brother. The same modifying
terms are applied to sister or sibling.
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Two of us in the churchyard lie,
My sister and my brother. --Wordsworth.
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2. One related or closely united to another by some common
tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a
society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges,
clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of
religion, etc. "A brother of your order." --Shak.
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We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother. --Shak.
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3. One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive
qualities or traits of character.
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He also that is slothful in his work is brother to
him that is a great waster. --Prov. xviii.
9.
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That April morn
Of this the very brother. --Wordsworth.
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Note: In Scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman
by blood more remote than a son of the same parents, as
in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. In a
more general sense, brother or brethren is used for
fellow-man or fellow-men.
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For of whom such massacre
Make they but of their brethren, men of men?
--Milton.
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Brother Jonathan, a humorous designation for the people of
the United States collectively. The phrase is said to have
originated from Washington's referring to the patriotic
Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut, as "Brother
Jonathan."
Blood brother. See under Blood.
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blood brother
(wn) | blood brother
n 1: a male with the same parents as someone else; "my brother
still lives with our parents" [syn: brother, {blood
brother}] [ant: sis, sister]
2: a male sworn (usually by a ceremony involving the mingling of
blood) to treat another as his brother |
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Blood brother
(gcide) | Blood \Blood\ (bl[u^]d), n. [OE. blod, blood, AS. bl[=o]d; akin
to D. bloed, OHG. bluot, G. blut, Goth. bl[=o][thorn], Icel.
bl[=o][eth], Sw. & Dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as E.
blow to bloom. See Blow to bloom.]
1. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular
system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of
the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted.
See under Arterial.
[1913 Webster]
Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing
minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the
invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless,
and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all
vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some
colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and
give the blood its uniformly red color. See
Corpuscle, Plasma.
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2. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor;
consanguinity; kinship.
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To share the blood of Saxon royalty. --Sir W.
Scott.
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A friend of our own blood. --Waller.
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Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent.
Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother.
In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole
blood. --Bouvier. --Peters.
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3. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest
royal lineage.
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Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam. --Shak.
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I am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --Shak.
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4. (Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed;
excellence or purity of breed.
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Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one
half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or
warm blood, is the same as blood.
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5. The fleshy nature of man.
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Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --Shak.
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6. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;
manslaughter; destruction.
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So wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
Till blood for blood atones. --Hood.
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7. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. [R.]
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He was a thing of blood, whose every motion
Was timed with dying cries. --Shak.
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8. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as
if the blood were the seat of emotions.
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When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
--Shak.
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Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm,
or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in
cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without
sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in
anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or
irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the
passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion
is signified; as, my blood was up.
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9. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man;
a rake.
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Seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all
the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
--Shak.
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It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
--Thackeray.
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10. The juice of anything, especially if red.
[1913 Webster]
He washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
--Gen. xiix.
11.
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Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first
part of self-explaining compound words; as,
blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling,
blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained,
blood-warm, blood-won.
[1913 Webster]
Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had
not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in
blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for
literal baptism.
Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody
serum, usually caused by an injury.
Blood brother, brother by blood or birth.
Blood clam (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and
allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast.
So named from the color of its flesh.
Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle.
Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the
separation in a crystalline form of the h[ae]moglobin of
the red blood corpuscles; h[ae]matocrystallin. All blood
does not yield blood crystals.
Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood,
or about 981/2 [deg] Fahr.
Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from
the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.
Blood money. See in the Vocabulary.
Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp.
Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused
by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from
without, or the absorption or retention of such as are
produced in the body itself; tox[ae]mia.
Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent.
Blood spavin. See under Spavin.
Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary.
Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families,
which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of
blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic
family.
Flesh and blood.
(a) A blood relation, esp. a child.
(b) Human nature.
In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor.
--Shak.
To let blood. See under Let.
Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue
of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the
sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the
daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood
royal.
[1913 Webster]Brother \Broth"er\ (br[u^][th]"[~e]r), n.; pl. Brothers
(br[u^][th]"[~e]rz) or Brethren (br[e^][th]"r[e^]n). See
Brethren. [OE. brother, AS. br[=o][eth]or; akin to OS.
brothar, D. broeder, OHG. pruodar, G. bruder, Icel.
br[=o][eth]ir, Sw. & Dan. broder, Goth. br[=o][thorn]ar, Ir.
brathair, W. brawd, pl. brodyr, Lith. brolis, Lett. brahlis,
Russ. brat', Pol. & Serv. brat, OSlav. bratr[u^], L. frater,
Skr. bhr[=a]t[.r], Zend bratar brother, Gr. fra`thr, fra`twr,
a clansman. The common plural is Brothers; in the solemn
style, Brethren, OE. pl. brether, bretheren, AS. dative
sing. br[=e][eth]er, nom. pl. br[=o][eth]or, br[=o][eth]ru.
[root]258. Cf. Friar, Fraternal.]
1. A male person who has the same father and mother with
another person, or who has one of them only. In the latter
case he is more definitely called a half brother, or
brother of the half blood.
Note: A brother having the same mother but different fathers
is called a uterine brother, and one having the same
father but a different mother is called an {agnate
brother}, or in (Law) a consanguine brother. A
brother having the same father and mother is called a
brother-german or full brother. The same modifying
terms are applied to sister or sibling.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
Two of us in the churchyard lie,
My sister and my brother. --Wordsworth.
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2. One related or closely united to another by some common
tie or interest, as of rank, profession, membership in a
society, toil, suffering, etc.; -- used among judges,
clergymen, monks, physicians, lawyers, professors of
religion, etc. "A brother of your order." --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers,
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
3. One who, or that which, resembles another in distinctive
qualities or traits of character.
[1913 Webster]
He also that is slothful in his work is brother to
him that is a great waster. --Prov. xviii.
9.
[1913 Webster]
That April morn
Of this the very brother. --Wordsworth.
[1913 Webster]
Note: In Scripture, the term brother is applied to a kinsman
by blood more remote than a son of the same parents, as
in the case of Abraham and Lot, Jacob and Laban. In a
more general sense, brother or brethren is used for
fellow-man or fellow-men.
[1913 Webster]
For of whom such massacre
Make they but of their brethren, men of men?
--Milton.
[1913 Webster]
Brother Jonathan, a humorous designation for the people of
the United States collectively. The phrase is said to have
originated from Washington's referring to the patriotic
Jonathan Trumbull, governor of Connecticut, as "Brother
Jonathan."
Blood brother. See under Blood.
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blood brotherhood
(wn) | blood brotherhood
n 1: the friendship characteristic of blood brothers |
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