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Of kin blood; related. [R.] Johnson.

Of the same blood; related by birth; descended from the same parent or ancestor. Shak.

The relation of person by blood, is distinction from affinity or relation by marriage; blood relationship; as, lineal consanguinity; collateral consanguinity. Invoking aid by the ties of consanguinity. Prescott.

form of wasting, attendant upon pulmonary phthisis and associated with cough, spitting of blood, hectic fever, etc.; pulmonary phthisis; -- called also pulmonary consumption. Consumption of the bowels (Med.), inflammation and ulceration of the intestines from tubercular disease.

Quarrel; contention; contest. [Obs.] Contek with bloody knife. Chaucer.

o vie; to quarrel; to fight. For never two such kingdoms did content Without much fall of blood. Shak. The Lord said unto me, Distress not the Moabites, neither contend with them in battle. Deut. ii. 9. In ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valor. Shak.

Opposition; resistance; hostility. [Obs.] Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, Controlment for controlment. Shak.

ury attended with more or less disorganization of the subcutaneous tissue and effusion of blood beneath the skin, but without apparent wound.

; a canal or aqueduct is a conveyance for water. There pipes and these conveyances of our blood. Shak.

A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood. Virchow showed that the corpuscles of bone are homologous with those of connective tissue. Quain's Anat. Red blood…

ure, simple, or correct; as, a corruption of style; corruption in language. Corruption of blood (Law), taint or impurity of blood, in consequence of an act of attainder of treason or felony, by which a person is disabled from inheriting any estate or from transmitting it to others. Corruption of blood can be removed on…

Collateral relationship or kindred by blood; consanguinity. Burrill.

To prohibit; to forbid. [Obs.] Avicen countermands letting blood in choleric bodles. Harvey.

To move with speed; to race; as, the blood courses through the veins. Shak.

A mixture of constituents, as of the blood; constitution; temperament.

A semisolid mass or clot, especially that formed in coagulation of the blood.

ucing a sensation like that caused by insects creeping on the skin. [Colloq.] One's whole blood grew curdling and creepy. R. Browning.

To curdle. [Obs.] See how thy blood cruddles at this. Bea

Coagulated. [Obs.] His cruel wounds with crudy blood congealed. Spenser.

Smeared with blood. [Obs.] Glanwill.