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Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.

Having cold blood; -- said of fish or animals whose blood is but little warmer than the water or air about them.

Of pure blood; thoroughbred; as, a full-blooded horse.

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.

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.

A warm-blooded, feathered vertebrate provided with wings. See Aves.

sight of blood, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay.

The cold-blooded vertebrates. Same as Hematocrya.

Cold-blooded.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal.

Half-blooded. [Obs.]

Half-blooded.

A warm-blooded animal. [R.]

Warm-blooded; hematothermal. [R]

The cold-blooded vertebrates, that is, all but the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to Hematotherma.

The warm-blooded vertebrates, comprising the mammals and birds; -- the antithesis to hematocrya.

Warm-blooded.

rature in spite of the great variations in the surrounding air; in distinct from the cold-blooded (poikilothermal) animals, whose body temperature follows the variations in temperature of the surrounding medium.

Warm-blooded; homoiothermal; hæmatothermal.