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A slaughterhouse; the shambles; a place where blood is shed. [Obs.] Like as an ox is hanged in the butchery. Fabyan.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood.

A degenerated or poisoned condition of the blood. --Ca*chæ"mic, Ca*che"mic (#), a.

Having, or pertaining to, cachexia; as, cachectic remedies; cachectical blood. Arbuthnot.

A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

A vitiated state of the humors, or fluids, of the body, especially of the blood. Dunglison.

Having the fluids of the body vitiated, especially the blood. Wiseman.

ined, most probably as due to congestion of internal organs with subsequent stasis of the blood.

To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate. Clotted blood that caked within. Addison.

ane, a plant of the Palm family. It furnishes the common rattan. See Rattan, and Dragon's blood.

A fancied nutritive juice, formerly supposed to orgiginate in the blood, to repair losses of the system, and to promote its increase. Dunglison.

A minute, thin-walled vessel; particularly one of the smallest blood vessels connecting arteries and veins, but used also for the smallest lymphatic and biliary vessels.

A capillary blood vessel. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

e veins in vertebrate embryos, which run each side of the vertebral column and returm the blood to the heart. They remain through life in some fishes. -- Cardinal virtues, preëminent virtues; among the ancients, prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude. -- Cardinal winds, winds which blow from the cardinal points…

touch or speak to in a loving or endearing manner; to fondle. The lady caresses the rough bloodhoun. Sir W. Scott.

Great destruction of life, as in battle; bloodshed; slaughter; massacre; murder; havoc. The more fearful carnage of the Bloody Circuit. Macaulay.

Flesh-devouring; cruel; ravenous; bloody. [Obs.] This carnal cur Preys on the issue of his mother's body. Shak. Carnal knowledge, sexual intercourse; -- used especially of an unlawful act on the part of the man.

One of the two main arteries of the neck, by which blood is conveyed from the aorta to the head.

everal species. The Hæmatatopinus eurysternus and H. vituli are common species which suck blood; Trichodectes scalaris eats the hair. -- Cattle plague, the rinderpest; called also Russian cattle plague. -- Cattle range, or Cattle run, an open space through which cattle may run or range. [U. S.] Bartlett. -- Cattle s…

ernous body, a body of erectile tissue with large interspaces which may be distended with blood, as in the penis or clitoris. -- Cavernous respiration, a peculiar respiratory sound andible on auscultation, when the bronchial tubes communicate with morbid cavities in the lungs.