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noun Blood n. 1.The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial. Note: The blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing minute particles, the blood corpuscles. In the invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless, and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all vertebrates, except Amphioxus, it contains some colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and give the blood its uniformly red color. See Corpuscle, Plasma. 2.Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship. "To share the blood of Saxon royalty." "A friend of our own blood." Half blood (Law), relationship through only one parent. Whole blood, relationship through both father and mother. In American Law, blood includes both half blood, and whole blood. 3.Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage. "Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam." "I am a gentleman of blood and breeding." 4.(Stock Breeding) Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed. Note: In stock breeding half blood is descent showing one half only of pure breed. Blue blood, full blood, or warm blood, is the same as blood. 5.The fleshy nature of man. "Nor gives it satisfaction to our blood." 6.The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction. "So wills the fierce, avenging sprite, Till blood for blood atones." 7.A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. (R.) "He was a thing of blood, whose every motion Was timed with dying cries." 8.Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; as if the blood were the seat of emotions. "When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth." Note: Often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm, or other qualifying word. Thus, to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in anger. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated. To warm or heat the blood is to excite the passions. Qualified by up, excited feeling or passion is signified; as, my blood was up. 9.A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake. "Seest thou not... how giddily 'a turns about all the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?" "It was the morning costume of a dandy or blood." 10.The juice of anything, especially if red. "He washed... his clothes in the blood of grapes." Note: Blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first part of self-explaining compound words; as, blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling, blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained, blood-warm, blood-won. Blood baptism (Eccl. Hist.), the martyrdom of those who had not been baptized. They were considered as baptized in blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for literal baptism. Blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody serum, usually caused by an injury. Blood brother, brother by blood or birth. Blood clam (Zool.), a bivalve mollusk of the genus Arca and allied genera, esp. Argina pexata of the American coast. So named from the color of its flesh. Blood corpuscle. See Corpuscle. Blood crystal (Physiol.), one of the crystals formed by the separation in a crystalline form of the haemoglobin of the red blood corpuscles; haematocrystallin. All blood does not yield blood crystals. Blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood, or about 98½ ° Fahr. Blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from the purest and most highly prized origin or stock. Blood money. See in the Vocabulary. Blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp. Blood poisoning (Med.), a morbid state of the blood caused by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from without, or the absorption or retention of such as are produced in the body itself; toxaemia. Blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials. Blood relation, one connected by blood or descent. Blood spavin. See under Spavin. Blood vessel. See in the Vocabulary. Blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families, which, according to a Spanish prover, has in it a tinge of blue; hence, a member of an old and aristocratic family. Flesh and blood. (a)A blood relation, esp. a child. In blood (Hunting), in a state of perfect health and vigor. To let blood. See under Let. Prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue of a royal family. The sons, brothers, and uncles of the sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood royal.
Heat n. 1.A force in nature which is recognized in various effects, but especially in the phenomena of fusion and evaporation, and which, as manifested in fire, the sun's rays, mechanical action, chemical combination, etc., becomes directly known to us through the sense of feeling. In its nature heat is a mode of motion, being in general a form of molecular disturbance or vibration. It was formerly supposed to be a subtile, imponderable fluid, to which was given the name caloric. Note: As affecting the human body, heat produces different sensations, which are called by different names, as heat or sensible heat, warmth, cold, etc., according to its degree or amount relatively to the normal temperature of the body. 2.The sensation caused by the force or influence of heat when excessive, or above that which is normal to the human body; the bodily feeling experienced on exposure to fire, the sun's rays, etc.; the reverse of cold. 3.High temperature, as distinguished from low temperature, or cold; as, the heat of summer and the cold of winter; heat of the skin or body in fever, etc. "Else how had the world... Avoided pinching cold and scorching heat!" 4.Indication of high temperature; appearance, condition, or color of a body, as indicating its temperature; redness; high color; flush; degree of temperature to which something is heated, as indicated by appearance, condition, or otherwise. "It has raised... heats in their faces." "The heats smiths take of their iron are a blood-red heat, a white-flame heat, and a sparkling or welding heat." 5.A single complete operation of heating, as at a forge or in a furnace; as, to make a horseshoe in a certain number of heats. 6.A violent action unintermitted; a single effort; a single course in a race that consists of two or more courses; as, he won two heats out of three. "Many causes... for refreshment betwixt the heats." "(He) struck off at one heat the matchless tale of "Tam o' Shanter."" 7.Utmost violence; rage; vehemence; as, the heat of battle or party. "The heat of their division." 8.Agitation of mind; inflammation or excitement; exasperation. "The heat and hurry of his rage." 9.Animation, as in discourse; ardor; fervency; as, in the heat of argument. "With all the strength and heat of eloquence." 10.(Zool.) Sexual excitement in animals; readiness for sexual activity; estrus or rut. 12.Strong psychological pressure, as in a police investigation; as, when they turned up the heat, he took it on the lam. (slang) Animal heat, Blood heat, Capacity for heat, etc. See under Animal, Blood, etc. Atomic heat (Chem.), the product obtained by multiplying the atomic weight of any element by its specific heat. The atomic heat of all solid elements is nearly a constant, the mean value being 6.4. Dynamical theory of heat, that theory of heat which assumes it to be, not a peculiar kind of matter, but a peculiar motion of the ultimate particles of matter. Heat engine, any apparatus by which a heated substance, as a heated fluid, is made to perform work by giving motion to mechanism, as a hot-air engine, or a steam engine. Heat producers. (Physiol.) See under Food. Heat rays, a term formerly applied to the rays near the red end of the spectrum, whether within or beyond the visible spectrum. Heat weight (Mech.), the product of any quantity of heat by the mechanical equivalent of heat divided by the absolute temperature; called also thermodynamic function, and entropy. Mechanical equivalent of heat. See under Equivalent. Specific heat of a substance (at any temperature), the number of units of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of the substance at that temperature one degree. Unit of heat, the quantity of heat required to raise, by one degree, the temperature of a unit mass of water, initially at a certain standard temperature. The temperature usually employed is that of 0° Centigrade, or 32° Fahrenheit.
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