Blood v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blooded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blooding.]
1. To bleed. [Obs.]
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.
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Blood·ed, a. 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.
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blooded
adj : of unmixed ancestry; "full-blooded Native American";
"blooded Jersies" [syn: full-blooded, full-blood]