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e same father or of the same mother, but not of both; as, a brother or sister of the half blood. See Blood, n., 2 and 4.

and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep.

Having hot blood; excitable; high-spirited; irritable; ardent; passionate.

The blood necessary to life; vital blood. Dryden.

Not bloody. Dryden. Unbloody sacrifice. (a) A sacrifice in which no victim is slain. (b) (R. C. Ch.) The Mass.

Having warm blood; -- applied especially to those animals, as birds and mammals, which have warm blood, or, more properly, the power of maintaining a nearly uniform temperature whatever the temperature of the surrounding air. See Homoiothermal.

The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it.

hing; hence, strongly opposed to; as, abhorrent thoughts. The persons most abhorrent from blood and treason. Burke. The arts of pleasure in despotic courts I spurn abhorrent. Clover.

To put an end to, or destroy, as a physical objects; to wipe out. [Archaic] And with thy blood abolish so reproachful blot. Spenser. His quick instinctive hand Caught at the hilt, as to abolish him. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to aborigines; as, a Hindoo of aboriginal blood.

only, but sometimes used of number. It is lamentable to remember what abundance of noble blood hath been shed with small benefit to the Christian state. Raleigh.

th the bribe which Judas took for betraying his Master, and therefore called the field of blood. Fig.: A field of bloodshed. The system of warfare . . . which had already converted immense tracts into one universal aceldama. De Quincey.

A morbid condition characterized by the presence of acetone in the blood, as in diabetes.

Lacking, or deficient in, color; as, achromatous blood.

To sharpen; to make pungent; to quicken. [Obs.] "[To] acuate the blood." Harvey.

unculaceæ, containing the pheasaut's eye (Adonis autumnalis); -- named from Adonis, whose blood was fabled to have stained the flower.

Having much heat in the constitution and little serum in the blood. [Obs.] Hence: Atrabilious; sallow; gloomy.

To expose to the chemical action of air; to oxygenate (the blood) by respiration; to arterialize. Aërated bread, bread raised by charging dough with carbonic acid gas, instead of generating the gas in the dough by fermentation.

A change produced in the blood by exposure to the air in respiration; oxygenation of the blood in respiration; arterialization.

Relationship by marriage (as between a husband and his wife's blood relations, or between a wife and her husband's blood relations); -- in contradistinction to consanguinity, or relationship by blood; -- followed by with, to, or between. Solomon made affinity with Pharaoh. 1 Kings iii. 1.