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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a snake or serpent. "The anguine or snakelike reptiles." Owen.

Anguineous.

Snakelike.

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

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

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

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.]

Destitute of blood; anæmic; exsanguious.

Having the color of blood; red. Of his complexion he was sanguine. Chaucer. Like to that sanguine flower inscribed with woe. Milton.

Destitute of blood; pale. [R.]

In a sanguine manner.

The quality of being sanguine.

Abounding with blood; sanguine.

An Australian honeysucker (Myzomela sanguineolata); -- so called from the bright red color of the male bird.

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.

e the seat and cause of irascibility. [Obs.] His [Richard Hooker's] complexion . . . was sanguine, with a mixture of choler; and yet his motion was slow. I. Warton.

A name given to the small trees called guelder-rose (Viburnum Opulus), cornel (Cornus sanguinea), and spindle tree (Euonymus Europæus).

A roundlet of tincture sanguine, which is blazoned without mention of the tincture.

Of or pertaining to the blood; sanguine; brownish red. Hæmatic acid (Physiol.), a hypothetical acid, supposed to be formed from hemoglobin during its oxidation in the lungs, and to have the power of freeing carbonic acid from the sodium carbonate of the serum. Thudichum.