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That which incloses or confines; an inclosure. O thou bloody prison . . . Within the guilty closure of thy walls Richard the Second here was hacked to death. Shak.

ed; adequate; suitable to the fault or crime. "Condign censure." Milman. Unless it were a bloody murderer . . . I never gave them condign punishment. Shak.

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

Bloody; cruentate. [Obs.]

Full of death or slaughter; murderous; destructive; bloody. These eyes behold The deathful scene. Pope.

Daring or warlike. [Obs.] Drad for his derring doe and bloody deed. Spenser.

A meeting, with hostile purpose; hence, a combat; a battle; as, a bloody encounter. As one for . . . fierce encounters fit. Spenser. To join their dark encounter in mid-air. Milton .

To make bloody. [Obs.] Chapman.

To stain or cover with blood; to make bloody, or of a blood-red color; as, an ensanguined hue. "The ensanguined field." Milton.

flith; to wallow. So now all three one senseless lump remain, Enwallowed in his own black bloody gore. Spenser.

To happen; to befall; to chance. "There fell out a bloody quarrel betwixt the frogs and the mice." L'Estrange. (c) (Mil.) To leave the ranks, as a soldier. -- To fall over. (a) To revolt; to desert from one side to another.

Bloody; clotted. [Obs. or Prov.] Foamy bubbling of a fleamy brain. Marston.

rge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

The bodily structure; physical constitution; make or build of a person. Some bloody passion shakes your very frame. Shak. No frames could be strong enough to endure it. Prescott.

Affray; broil; contest; combat. Who began this bloody fray Shak.

tisfy fully the desire or craving of; to satiate; to sate; to cloy. His faithful heart, a bloody sacrifice, Torn from his breast, to glut the tyrant's eyes. Dryden. The realms of nature and of art were ransacked to glut the wonder, lust, and ferocity of a degraded populace. C. Kingsley. To glut the market, to furnish a…

Bloody; murderous. "Gory emulation." Shak.

Specifically, a tomahawk. Buried was the bloody hatchet. Longfellow.

See Empale. Then with what life remains, impaled, and left To writhe at leisure round the bloody stake. Addison.

Unbloody; not attended with blood; as, an incruental sacrifice. [Obs.] Brevint.