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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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104 words match “SANG”

SANGUINENESS n.

The quality of being sanguine.

SANGUINEOUS a. 3 definitions

Abounding with blood; sanguine.

The quality of being sanguine; sanguineness. Swift.

SANGUINIVOROUS a.

Subsisting on blood.

SANGUINOLENCY n.

The state of being sanguinolent, or bloody.

SANGUINOLENT a.

Tinged or mingled with blood; bloody; as, sanguinolent sputa.

A bloodsucker, or leech.

SANGUIVOROUS a.

Subsisting upon blood; -- said of certain blood-sucking bats and other animals. See Vampire.

CONSANGUINEAL a.

Of the same blood; related by birth. Sir T. Browne.

CONSANGUINED a.

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

CONSANGUINEOUS a.

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

CONSANGUINITY n.

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

DISANGELICAL a.

Not angelical. [R.] "Disangelical nature." Coventry.

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

Bloodless. [R.]

EXSANGUINEOUS a.

Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious.

EXSANGUINITY n.

Privation or destitution of blood; -- opposed to plethora. Dunglison.

EXSANGUINOUS a.

See Exsanguious.

EXSANGUIOUS a. 2 definitions

Destitute of blood. Sir T. Browne.

genus Prionodon, inhabiting the East Indies and Southern Asia. The common East Indian linsang (P. gracilis) is white, crossed by broad, black bands. The Guinea linsang (Porana Richardsonii) is brown with black spots.