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Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.

A piece of hard wood loaded at one end with lead, and used to strike the fleam into the vein. Youatt.

A green siliceous stone sprinkled with red jasper, as if with blood; hence the name; -- called also heliotrope.

Loss of sensation and motion from hemorrhage or congestion in the brain. Dunglison.

Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species.

Eager to shed blood; cruel; sanguinary; murderous. -- Blood"thirst`i*ness (n.

The European bullfinch.

A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.

A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.

A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.

Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.

The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood. Arbuthnot.

A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a man's trespass in the forest against venison. Jacob.

A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.

Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.

A terrible bugbear.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Sheldon.

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

See Dragon's blood, Dragon's head, etc., under Dragon.

Having a full supply of blood.