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BLOOD , the circulating fluid in the See also:

VEINS

veins and See also:

ARTERIES (Gr. ap-rnpia, probably from a"spew, to raise, but popularly connected by the ancients with ai7P, air)

arteries of animals. The word itself is See also:

COMMON

common to See also:

Teutonic See also:

LANGUAGES

languages; the O. Eng. is bled, cf. See also:

GOTHIC

Gothic bloth, Dutch bloed, Ger. Blut. It is probably ultimately connected with the See also:

root which appears in " See also:

BLOW, JOHN (1648-1708)

blow," " See also:

BLOOM (from A.S. bloma, a flower)

bloom," meaning flourishing or vigorous. The Gr. word for blood, aiµa, appears as a prefix haemo- in many See also:

compound words. As that on which the See also:

LIFE

life depends, as the supposed seat of the passions and emotions, and as that See also:

PART

part which a See also:

child is believed chiefly to inherit from its parents, the word " blood " is used in many figurative and transferred senses; thus " to have his blood," " to See also:

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

fire the blood," " See also:

COLD (in O. Eng. cald and ceald, a word coming ultimately from a root cognate with the Lat. gelu, gelidus, and common in the Teutonic languages, which usually have two distinct forms for the substantive and the adjective, cf. Ger. Kolte, kalt, Dutch koude

cold blood," " blood-royal," " See also:

HALF

half " or " whole blood," &c. The expression " See also:

BLUE (common in different forms to most European languages)

blue blood " is from the See also:

SPANISH

Spanish sangre azul. The nobles of See also:

CASTILE, or CASTILLE (Castilla)

Castile claimed to be See also:

FREE

free from all admixture with the darker blood of See also:

Moors or See also:

Jews, a See also:

PROOF (in M. Eng. preove, proeve, preve, &°c., from O. Fr . prueve, proeve, &c., mod. preuve, Late. Lat. proba, probate, to prove, to test the goodness of anything, probus, good)

proof being supposed to See also:

lie in the blue veins that showed in their fairer skins. The common See also:

ENGLISH

English expletive " bloody," used as an See also:

ADJECTIVE (from the Lat. adjectives, added)

adjective or adverb, has been given many fanciful origins; it has been supposed to be a contraction of " by our See also:

LADY (0. Eng. hlaefdige, Mid. Eng. ldfdi, lavedi; the first part of the word is hldf, loaf, bread, as in the corresponding hldford, lord; the second part is usually taken to be from the root dig-, to knead, seen also in " dough "; the sense development fr

Lady," or an See also:

ADAPTATION (from Lat. adaptare. to fit to)

adaptation of the See also:

OATH (0. Eng. ddh)

oath common during the 17th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century, " 'sblood," a contraction of " See also:

God's blood." The exact origin of the expression is not quite clear, but it is certainly merely an application of the adjective formed from " blood." The New English See also:

DICTIONARY

Dictionary suggests that it refers to the use of " blood " for a See also:

young rowdy of aristocratic See also:

BIRTH (a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages from the root of the verb " to bear ")

birth, which was common at the end of the 17th century, and later became synonymous with " See also:

DANDY

dandy," " See also:

buck," &c.; "bloody drunk " meant therefore "drunk as a blood," " drunk as a See also:

lord." The expression came into common colloquial use as a See also:

mere intensive, and was so used till the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 18th century. There can be little doubt that the use of the word has been considerably affected by the See also:

IDEA (Gr. Ibia, connected with i&eiv, to see; cf. Lat. species from specere, to look at)

idea of blood as the vital principle, and therefore something strong, vigorous, and parallel as an intensive epithet with such expressions as " thundering," " awfully " and the like.

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