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To emit blood; to lose blood; to run with blood, by whatever means; as, the arm bleeds; the wound bled freely; to bleed at the nose.

One in whom slight wounds give rise to profuse or uncontrollable bleeding.

Emitting, or appearing to emit, blood or sap, etc.; also, expressing anguish or compassion.

To make bloody; to stain with blood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A bleeding at the nose.

before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak.

imp. & p. p. of Bleed.

To bleed. [Obs.] Cowper.

bleed; to let blood. Arbuthnot.

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

nots that tangle human creeds, The wounding cords that bind and strain The heart until it bleeds. Tennyson.

wo-spurred or heart-shaped flowers, including the Dutchman's breeches, and the more showy Bleeding heart (D. spectabilis). [Corruptly written dielytra.]

d without need. A self-opinioned physician, worse than his distemper, who shall dose, and bleed, and kill him, "secundum artem." South

Bleeding at the nose.

nd also a dangerous poison, and is used as a means of hastening childbirth, and to arrest bleeding.

To let fall; to drop. [Obs.] For every tear he falls, a Trojan bleeds. Shak.

edicable Rankle, and fester, and gangrene. Milton. Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester. South. Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil. Macaulay.

The plant love-lies-bleeding. [Obs.] Prior.

sacrifice or slaughter of any large number of victims. Slaughtered hecatombs around them bleed. Addison. More than a human hecatomb. Byron.

s. [Obs.] As easy mayest thou the intrenchant air With thy keen sword impress, as make me bleed. Shak.