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A blood-sucking dipterous fly, of the genus Culex, undergoing a metamorphosis in water. The females have a proboscis armed with needlelike organs for penetrating the skin of animals. These are wanting in the males. In America they are generally called mosquitoes. See Mosquito.

lly, good bargain; reasonably cheap. -- Good consideration (Law). (a) A consideration of blood or of natural love and affection. Blackstone. (b) A valuable consideration, or one which will sustain a contract. -- Good fellow, a person of companionable qualities. [Familiar] -- Good folk, or Good people, fairies; browni…

Blood; especially, blood that after effusion has become thick or clotted. Milton.

to fill up to the throat; to satiate. The giant gorged with flesh. Addison. Gorge with my blood thy barbarous appetite. Dryden.

Covered with gore or clotted blood. Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me. Shak.

A drop; a clot or coagulation. On thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood. Shak.

tock with some better breed. If the crossbreed have more than three fourths of the better blood, it is called high grade. At grade, on the same level; -- said of the crossing of a railroad with another railroad or a highway, when they are on the same level at the point of crossing. -- Down grade, a descent, as on a gr…

has the gills tinged with a green pigment, said to be due to an abnormal condition of the blood.

A thick, viscid fluid; a clot, as of blood. Quincy.

Resembling or containing grume; thick; concreted; clotted; as, grumous blood.

One of the mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian) inhabitants of the pampas of South America; a mestizo.

wo swords he bore; his word, "Divide and reign." P. Fletcher. Follow thy drum; With man's blood paint the ground; gules, gules. Shak. Let's march to rest and set in gules, like suns. Beau. & Fl.

to flow copiously. He smote the rock that the waters gushed out. Ps ixxviii 20. A sea of blood gushed from the gaping wound. Spenser.

Rushing forth with violence, as a fluid; flowing copiously; as, gushing waters. "Gushing blood." Milton.

A cell or mass of protoplasm devoid of an envelope, as a white blood corpuscle.

Combining forms indicating relation or resemblance to blood, association with blood; as, hæmapod, hæmatogenesis, hæmoscope.

A substance found in the blood of the octopus, which gives to it its blue color.

An apparatus for determining the number of corpuscles in a given quantity of blood.

An instrument for registering the velocity of the blood.

Pertaining to the blood or blood vessels; also, ventral. See Hemal.