Arriving at Lord Bibo's study,
They thought they'd be a little bloody;
So, with a bold, presumptuous look,
An honest pinch of snuff they took.
Rebelliad, p. 44.
They roar'd and bawl'd, and were so bloody,
As to besiege Lord Bibo's study.
Ibid., p. 76.
BLOW. A merry frolic with drinking; a spree. A person intoxicated is said to be blown, and Mr. Halliwell, in his Dict. Arch. and Prov. Words, has blowboll, a drunkard.
This word was formerly used by students to designate their frolics and social gatherings; at present, it is not much heard, being supplanted by the more common words spree, tight, &c.
My fellow-students had been engaged at a blow till the stagehorn had summoned them to depart.—Harvard Register, 1827-28, p. 172.
No soft adagio from the muse of blows,
E'er roused indignant from serene repose.
Ibid., p. 233.
And, if no coming blow his thoughts engage,
Lights candle and cigar.
Ibid., p. 235.
The person who engages in a blow is also called a blow.
I could see, in the long vista of the past, the many hardened blows who had rioted here around the festive board.—Collegian, p. 231.