nels to Blood ftill farther; he granted him an eftate of L.500 a year in Ireland; he encouraged his attendance about his perfon; he fhowed him great countenance; and many applied to him for promoting their pretenfions at court. And while old Edwards, who had bravely ventured his life, and had been wounded, in defending the crown and regalia, was forgotten and neglected, this man, who deferved to be hange 1, became a kind of favourite. Blood enjoyed his penfion about 10 years, till being charged with fixing an imputation of a fcandalous nature on the D. of Buckingham, he was thrown into prifon; yet, though the damages were laid at L. 10,000, Blood found bail. He died however foon after, on the 24th Aug. 1680. But the public had now got fuch a notion of the reftlefs fpirit of Blood, that they would not believe he could reft even in the grave. Nor did they indeed permit him to do fo; for a ftory being circulated that his death and burial was only a new trick, preparatory to fome extraordinary exploit, it gained credit to fuch a degree, that the body was obliged to be taken up and the coroner's inqueft to fit upon it, and to call witneffes to prove the identity of the Colonel's corpfe, before the public could be fully perfuaded, that fo extraordinary a genius was actually dead.

To BLOOD. v. a. [from the noun.] 1. To ftain with blood.

Then all approach the flain with vaft furprife, And, fearce fecure, reach out their spears afar, And blood their points, to prove their partnerDryden's Fables.

ship in war.

He was blooded up to his elbows by a couple of Moors, whom he butchered with his own imperial hands. Addifon. 2. To enter; to enure to blood, as a hound.

Fairey than faireft, let none ever fay, That ye were blooded in yielded prey. Spenfer's Sonnets. 3. To blond, is fometimes to let blood medically. 4. To heat; to exasperate.—When the faculties intellectual are in vigour, not drenched, or, as it were, blooded by the affections. Bacon's Apophthegms. By this means, matters grew more exafperate; the auxiliary forces of French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon's Henry VII.

BLOOD, AVENGER OF, among the Jews, was the next of kin to the person murdered, who was to pursue the murderer.

BLOOD-BOLTERED. adj. [from blood and bolter] Blood fprinkled.

The blood-bolter'd Banquo fmiles upon me. Macbeth. (1.) BLOOD, DRAGON's, fanguis draconis,] is ufed by the Arabs for the juice of the ANCHUSA. (2.) BLOOD, DRAGON's. See DRAGON'S BLOOD. BLOOD, EFFUSION OF, in canon law, is fuppofed to pollute all concerned with it, however innocently; and therefore eccle Saftical judges retire, when judgment is to be given in cafes of blood, by reafon the church is fuppofed to abhor blood. It condemns no perion to death; and its members become irregular, or disabled from their functions, the effufion of blood.

BLOOD, FIELD OF. See ACELDAMA. It still

ferves for a burial-ground, in which all pilgrimis, who die in their pilgrimage at Jerufalem, are interred. (1.) BLOODFLOWER. n. f. [hemanthus, Lat.] A plant.

(2) BLOOD FLOWER. See HÆMANTHUS. * BLOODGUILTINESS. ». f. [from blood and guilty.] Murder; the crime of fhedding blood.→ And were there rightful cause of difference, Yet wer't not better, fair it to accord, Than with bloodquiltiness to heap offence, And mortal vengeance join to crime abhorr'd. Fairy Queen.

* BLOOD-HOT. adj. [from blood and bot.] Hot in the fame degree with blood.-A good piece of bread firft to be eaten, will gain time to warm the beer blood-hot, which then he may drink fafely. Locke.

*BLOODHOUND. n. f. [from blood and hound.】 A hound that follows by the scent, and seizes with great fiercenefs.-

Hear this, hear this, thou tribune of the people, Thou zealous, publick bloodhound,hear and melt. Dryden.

Where are thefe rav'ning bloodhounds, that

purfue

In a full cry, gaping to fwallow me? Southern. -A bloodbound will follow the track of the perfon he purfues, and all hounds the particular game they have in chace. Arbuthnot on Aliments.

And though the villain 'fcape a while, he feels Slow vengeance, like a bloodhound, at his heels. Savift.

(2.) BLOOD-HOUND, in zoology, the CANIS SAGAX of Linnæus (fee CANIS), le chien courant of Buffon, the flow bound of the Scots: The hound or dog, with long, fmooth, and pendulous ears. It was a dog of great use, and in high esteem with our ancestors: its employ was to recover any game that had efcaped wounded from the hunter, or been killed and ftole out of the foreft. It was remarkable for the acuteness of its fiell, tracing the loft beaft by the blood it had fpilt; from whence the name is derived. This fpecies could, with the utmost certainty, difcover the thief by following his footsteps, let the diftance of his flight be ever fo great, and through the most secret and thickest coverts: nor would it ceafe its purfuit till it had taken the felon. They were likewife ufed by Wailace and Bruce during the civil wars. The pocti cal hiftorians of the two heroes frequently relate very curious paffages on this fubject; of the for vice thefe dogs were to their matters, and the ef capes they had from thofe of the enemy. The blood-hound was in great request on the confines of England and Scotland; where the borderers were continually preying on the herds and flocks of their neighbours. The true blood-hound was large, ftrong, mufcular, broad breafted, of a ftern countenance, of a deep tan colour, and generally marked with a black spot above each eye. * BLOODILY. adv. [from bloody.] With dif pofition to fled blood; cruelly.—

I told the purfuivant, As too triumphing, how mine enemies, To-day at Pomfret, bloodily were butcher'd. Shakefp. Rich. III

Thi

This day, the poet, bloodily inclin'd,
Has made me die, full fore againft my mind.

Dryden. BLOODINESS. n. f. [from bloody.] The ftate of being bloody.-It will manifeft itself by its bloodings; yet fometimes the fcull is fo thin as not to admit of any. Sharp's Surgery.

BLOODLESS. adj. [from blood.] 1. Withbut blood; dead.

He cheer'd my forrows, and, for fums of gold, The bloodless carcafe of my Hector fold. Dryd. 2. Without flaughter.

War brings ruin where it fhould amend; But beauty, with a bloodless conqueft, finds A welcome for reignty in rudeft minds. Waller. To BLOOD-LET.† v. n. [from blood and let.] To bleed; to open a vein medicinally.-The chyle is not perfectly affimilated into blood, by its circulation through the lungs, as is known by experiments in blood-letting. Arbuthnot on Aliments. *BLOOD-LETTER. n. f. [from blood-let.] A phlebotomift; one that takes away blood medically. This mifchief in ancurifms, proceedeth from the ignorance of the blood-letter, who, not confidering the errour, committed in letting blood, binds up the arm carelessly. Wifeman. BLOOD-LETTING, n.f. The operation of bleeding, or letting blood.

(1) BLOOD OF CHRIST, a pretended relic. See BLOOD, 18.

(2) BLOOD OF CHRIST, the name of a military order inftituted at Mantua in 1608. The number of knights was reftricted to 20, befides the grand mater. Their device was, Domine, probafli me; Lord, thou haft proved me: or, Nibil boc trifle nepts; Fortified by this, no evil can prevail. BLOOD OF MERCURY, in alchemy, the tincture of mercury.

BLOOD OF ST JANUARIUS. See BLOOD, § 18. BLOOD OF SULPHUR, [fanguis fulphuris,] a preparation of liver of fulphur, ground with oil of tarti per deliquium, and digested with dulcified fpi. of nitre. It was reputed a good pectoral and diuretic, but is feldom prescribed.

BLOOD, PRECIOUS, a denomination given to a reformed congregation of Bernardine nuns at Paris, firit established under that name in 1661. BLOOD-RED HOT, the laft degree of heat gi ven by fmiths to iron in the forge.

BLOOD RUNNING ITCH, in farriery, a difede in a horfe, proceeding from an inflammation of the blood by over-heating, hard riding, or other kre labour; which, getting between the fkin feh, makes the beaft rub and bite himself; if not cured, fometimes turns to a grievous Lage, highly infectious to all nigh him. BLOOD, SALAMANDER's, the rednefs remaining In the receiver, after diftilling the fpirit of nitre. BLOOD, SATYRION, a ruddy liquor produced from the roots of fatyrium, baked with bread;

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and liquified, as it were, into blood, by a long digeftion.

*BLOODSHED. n. f. [from blood and shed.] 1. The crime of blood, or murder.

Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath; Abhorred bloodshed, and tumultuous ftrife, Unmanly murder, and unthrifty fcath. F. Queen. All murders paft do ftand excus'd in this; And this fo fole, and so unmatchable, Shall prove a deadly blood/bed but a jeft, Exampl'd by this heinous fpectacle. Shak. K. J. A man, under the transports of a vehement rage, paffes a different judgment upon murder and bloodhed, from what he does when his revenge is over. South. 2. Slaughter; wafte of life.

So by him Cæfar got the victory, Through great bloodshed, and many a fad affaya Fairy Queen

Of wars and bloodshed, and of dire events, I could with greater certainty foretel. Dryden. *BLOODSHEDDER. n. f. [from bloodshed.] Murderer. He that taketh away his neighbour's living, flayeth him; and he that defraudeth the labourer of his hite, is a bloodshedder. Eccluf. xxxiv. 22.

(1.) * BLOODSHOT adj. [from blood and * BLOODSHOTTEN. S hot.] Filled with blood burfting from its proper vessels.—

And that the winds their bellowing throats would try,

When redd'ning clouds reflect his bloodshot eye.

Garth.

(2.) BLOOD-SHOTTEN. See OPHTHALMIA. BLOOD-SNAKE, the English name of the HÆ MORRHUS.

BLOOD-SFAVIN. See FARRIERY.

BLOOD, SPITTING OF, or HAMOPTOE. See MEDICINE, INDEX.

*

(1.) BLOOD-STONE. n. f. [hæmatites; from blood and tone.] The name of a stone.-There is a ftone, which they call the blood-fione, which, worn, is thought to be good for them that bleed at the nofe; which, no doubt, is by aftriction, and cooling of the fpirits. Bacon.-The blood-ftone is green, fpotted with a light blood red. Wood ward on foffils. (2.) BLOOD-STONE. See HEMATITES. *BLOODSUCKER. n.. [from blood and fuck.] 1. A leech; a fly; any thing that fucks blocd. 2. A cruel man; a murderer.

God keep the prince from all the pack of you; A knot you are of damned bloodfuckers ! Shakefp. Rich. III. The nobility cried out upon him, that he was a bloodsucker, a murderer, and a parricide. Hay

ward.

BLOOD-THIRSTY. adj. [from blood and thirft.] Defirous to fhed blood.

And high advancing his blood-thirsty blade, Struck one of those deformed heads. Fairy L I The

BLOODY-LAWs, a fmall hill of Scotland, in Rox burghshire, in the parish of Oxnam, fo named from its having been anciently a scene of frequent and bloody feuds between the Scots and English borderers.

The image of God the blood-thirfly have not; for God is charity and mercy itself. Raleigh's Hift. (1.) * BLOOD-VESSEL. n. f. [from blood and veel. A veffel appropriated by nature to the conveyance of the blood. The fkins of the forehead were extremely tough and thick, and had not in them any blood-veffel, that we were able to difcover. Addifon's Spectator.

(2.) BLOOD-VESSELS. See ANATOMY, INDEX; and Plates VII, VIII and IX.

(1.) * BLOODWIT. n. J. A fine anciently paid as a compofition for blood.

(2.) BLOOD-WIT, or ) [from blud, Sax. blood, BLOOD-WITE Sand quite, a fine,] denotes an exemption from the penalty (N. 1.) granted by the king to certain perfons and communities as a fpecial favour. K. Henry II. granted to all tenants within the honour of Wallingford-Ut quieti fint de bidagio et blodwite et bredwite. The word is alfo written blodwite, blodswita, blodzyta, bloudsuit, and bluid-weit.

BLOOD-WOOD, Log-wood. See HEMA

TOXYLON.

(1.) * BLOODWORT. n f. A plant. (2.) BLOODWORT, in botany. See RUMEX. * BLOODY. adj. [from blood.] 1. Stained with blood. 2. Cruel; murderous: applied either to men or facts. By continual martial exercifes, without blood, she made them perfect in that bloody art. Sidney.

Falfe of heart, light of ear, bloody of hand. Shakefp K. Lear. I grant him bloody, Luxurious, avaricious, falfe, deceitful.

Shakefp. Macbeth. Thou bloodier villain, Than terms can give thee out. Shakef. Mach. Alas! why gnaw you fo your nether lip? Some bloody pallion thakes your very frame; These are portents: but yet I hope, I hope, They do not point on me. Shakefp. Othello. The bloody fact

Will be aveng'd; and th' other's faith approv'd, Lofe no reward; tho' here thou fee him die, Rolling in duft and gore. Milton's Par. Loft. The bloodieft vengeance which she could purfue,

Would be a trifle to my lofs of you. Dryden's Indian Emp. Proud Nimrod firft the bloody chace began, A mighty hunter, and his prey was man. Pope's W. Foreft. BLOODY BAY, a harbour on the Sound of the ifle of Mull, on the coaft of Argyllshire.

BLOODY CRIME, [fanguineum crimen,] in writers of the middle age, that which is punithed with the blood or life of the offender.

(1.) BLOODY-FLUX. n. f. The dyfentery; a aifeafe in which the excrements are mixed with blood.--Cold, by retarding the motion of the blood, and fupprefling perfpiration, produces giddinefs, fleepinefs, pains in the bowels, loofenets, bloody-fluxes. Arbuthnot on Air.

(2.) BLOODY FLUX. See MEDICINE, INDEX. BLOODY HAND, in law, a trespaffer apprehended in a foreft with his hands or other parts bloody; which is a circumftantial proof of his having killed The deer, though he be not found hunting them.

* BLOODY-MINDED. adj. [from bloody and mind.} Cruel; inclined to bloodshed.-I think you'll make me mad: truth has been at my tongue's end this half hour, and I have not the power to bring it out, for fear of this bloody-minded colonel. Dryden's Spanish Fryar.

BLOODY RAIN. See RAIN.

BLOODY SWEAT. Many inftances of this are recorded, owing either to bodily disorder, or extreme mental agitation and agony. See particularly Ariftotle's Hift. Animal. lib. iii. cap. 19. apud Oper. tom. i. Thuanus Hift. Temp. &c. lib. ii. apud Oper. tom. i. Melanges d'Hiftoire et de Literature, &c. par M. V. Marville, tom. iii. p. 149. A&a Phyfico Med. Norimbergæ, vol. i. p. 84. and vol. viii. p. 428.

BLOODY URINE. See MEDICINE, INDEX.

(1.) BLOOM. n. f. [blum, Germ. bloem, Dutch. r. A bloffom; the lower which precedes the fruit.

How nature paints her colours, how the bee

Sits on her bloom, extrading liquid fweet.

Paradife Loft. A medlar tree was planted by; The spreading branches made a goodly show, And full of opening blooms was ev'ry bough.

round.

Dryden. Hafte to yonder woodbine bow'rs; The turf with rural dainties fhall be crown'd, While opening blooms diffute their sweets aPope 2. The ftate of immaturity; the ftate of any thing improving, and ripening to higher perfection.Were I no queen, did you my beauty weigh, My youth in bloom, your age in its decay.

Dryden's durengs. 3. The blue colour upon plums and grapes newly gathered. 4. [In the iron works.] A piece of iron wrought into a mais, two feet fquare.

(2.) BLOOM, in the iron works, (§ 1. def. 4.) has yet to undergo many haminerings before it become iron fit for the fmith's ufe, and be made what they call the ancony. See ANCONY.

(3.) BLOOM, HALF, a round mafs of metal, which comes out of the finery of an iron work. See BLOMARY.

*To BLOOM. v. n. [from the noun.] 1. To bring or yield bloffoms.-Therod of Aaron for the house of Levi was budded, and brought forth buds, and bloomed bloffoms, and yielded almonds. Numbers xvii. 8.-It is a common experience, that if you do not pull off fome bloffoms the first time a tree bloometh, it will blossom itself to death. Bacon's Natural Hiftory. 2. To produce, as bloffoms.-Rites and cuftoms, now fuperftitious, when the ftrength of virtuous, devout or charitable affection bloomed them, no man could justly have condemned as evil. Hooker. 3. To be in a state of youth and improvement.

Beauty, frail flow'r, that every feason fears, Blooms in thy colours for a thousand years. Pope's Epifles. O greatly

O greatly blefs'd with every blooming grace! With equal steps the paths of glory trace.

Pope's Odyey.

BLOOMARY. See BLOMARY. • BLOOMY. adj. [from bloom.] Full of blooms; furery.

Onightingale! that on yon bloomy spray Warbleft at eve, when all the woods are still. Milton. Departing fpring could only ftay to shed Her bloomy beauties on the genial bed, But let the manly fummer in her ftead.

Dryden Hear how the birds, on ev'ry bloomy spray, With joyous mulick wake the dawning day. Pope.

BLOOSM, n. f. obf. bloffom. Spenfer. BLOOT, Peter, a Flemish painter, whofe works art kldom seen in Britain: nor are they easily purchased in Holland, being highly efteemed and carefully preferved in private collections. The alects he painted were boors drinking, feafting, dancing, or quarrelling; shepherds piping, the marriages of villagers, &c. He was a faithful but too fervile imitator of nature; never departing from the attitudes, or draperies of his models. He undeftood the chiarofcuro, and perspective; he had a delicate manner of penciling, and his colouring was mellow; but he had no idea of elegance: yet pictures have in many respects great merit, and bis defects feem rather imputable to the taffe of his country, than to want of genius; fome of Mizwerks being, for the lightnefs of the touch, the restacks of handling, and tranfparence of colour, equal to the beft of his time. He died in 1667. BLOOTFLING. See BLOTELING. BLOKE. n. f. [from blow.] Act of blowing; bh: an expreffive word, but not used.

Out ruht, with an unmeafur'd roar, Thefe two winds, tumbling clouds in heaps; uthers to either's blore. Chapman's Iliad. BLORE-HALL, a village in Staffordshire, near Okeover.

BLORE-HEATH, a village in Staffordshire, near Strapthire.

(1) BLOSSOM. n. f. [blosme, Sax.] The flower that grows on any plant, previous to the feed or fruit. We generally call these flowers blossoms, which are not much regarded in themselves, but a token of fome following production.Cold news for me: Thes are my blooms blafted in the bud, And caterpillars eat my leaves away. Shakefp. Henry IV. Merrily, merrily, fhall I live now, Tader the bloom that hangs on the bough. Shakefp. Tempeft. -The pulling off many of the blooms of a fruit te, doth make the fruit fairer.

Bacon's Natural Hiflory. To his green ears your cenfure you would fuit,

Not blaft the blossom, but expect the fruit.

Dryden. (BLOSSOM, in a particular fenfe, is restrained to the flowers of trees, which they put forth the fpring as the forerunners of their fruit, erwit called their BLOOM. The office of the

bloffom is partly to protect, and partly to draw nourishment to, the embryo, fruit, or feed. ee FLOWER.

(3.) BLOSSOM, or PEACH-COLOURED, in the manege, a term applied to a horse that has his hair white, but intermixed all over with forrel and bay hairs. Such horses are so infenfible and hard both in the mouth and the flanks, that they are scarce valued; besides they are apt to turn blind.

To BLOSSOM. v. n. [from the noun.] To put forth bloffoms.

This is the ftate of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow, blossoms, And bears his blufhing honours thick upon him. Shakefp. Henry VIII. Although the fig-tree fhall not bloffom, neither fhall fruit be in the vines, yet will I rejoice in the Lord. Habb. iii 17.—The want of rain at blossom ing time, often occafions the dropping off of the bloffoms, for want of sap. Mortimer.

The

(1.)BLOSSOMING, MIRACULOUS, OF PLANTS. The pious bloffoming of the Glaftenbury thorn on Chriftmas morning, is a vulgar error. fact is, that the plant, befides its ufual_blossoming in the fpring, fometimes puts forth a few white tranfient bloffoms in the middle of winter. The bloffoming of the role of Jericho on the fame day, as it is faid in England, or in the time of midnight mafs, as it was believed in France, during the prevalence of pricftcraft, is fomewhat more than an error, being really a fraud on one fide, and a fuperftition on the other. This rofe, whofe leaves are only clofed in winter, will, at any time, upon fetting its pedicle in water, expand and bloffom anew; because the pedicle being spongy imbibes the fluid apace, and thus fills and fwells out the fhrivelled leaves; which property fome monks have turned to good account.

(2.) BLOSSOMING. See BLTS SOMING. BLOSTENHIM, a village in Cornwall, N. W. of Saltath.

* BLOT. n. /. [from the verb.] 1. An obliteration of fomething written.

Let flames on your unlucky papers prey, Your wars, your loves, your praises, be forgot, And make of all an univerfal blot.

Dryd. Juv.

2. A blur; a fpot upon paper. 3. A fpot in reputation; a stain; a difgrace; a reproach.— Make known,

It is no vicious blot, murder, or foulness, That hath depriv'd me. Shakefp. K. Lear -A lie is a foul blot in a man; yet it is continually in the mouth of the untaught. Eccluf. xx. 24. -A difappointed hope, a blot of honour, a strain of confcience, an unfortunate love, will ferve the turn. Temple. 4. [At Backgammon.] When a Engle man lies open to be taken up; whence to hit a blot. He is too great a master of his art to make a blot which may so easily be hit. Dryden's Dedication, Æneid.

*To BLOT. v. a. [from blottir, Fr. to hide.] 1. To obliterate; to make writing invisible by covering it with ink.—

You that are king

Have caus'd him by new act of parliament,
To blot out me, and put his own fon in.
Shakelp. Henry VI.

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