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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blood \Blood\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Blooded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Blooding}.]
1. To bleed. [Obs.] --Cowper.
2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic]
Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. --Dryden.
3. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. --Macaulay.
4. To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.]
The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. --Bacon.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Blooded \Blood"ed\, adjective Having pure blood, or a large admixture or pure blood; of approved breed; of the best stock.
Note: Used also in composition in phrases indicating a particular condition or quality of blood; as, cold-blooded; warm-blooded.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
blooded
adjective: of unmixed ancestry; "full-blooded Native American"; "blooded Jersies" [syn: {full-blooded}, {full-blood}]
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