BLOOD VESSEL
Blood" ves`sel. (Anat.)
Defn: Any vessel or canal in which blood circulates in an animal, as an artery or vein.
BLOODWITE; BLOODWIT Blood"wite`, Blood"wit` (, n. Etym: [AS. bl; bl blood, + wite wite, fine.] (Anc. Law)
Defn: A fine or amercement paid as a composition for the shedding of blood; also, a riot wherein blood was spilled.
BLOODWOOD
Blood"wood, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A tree having the wood or the sap of the color of blood.
Note: Norfolk Island bloodwood is a euphorbiaceous tree (Baloghia lucida), from which the sap is collected for use as a plant. Various other trees have the name, chiefly on account of the color of the wood, as Gordonia Hæmatoxylon of Jamaica, and several species of Australian Eucalyptus; also the true logwood ( Hæmatoxylon campechianum).
BLOODWORT
Blood"wort` (, n. (Bot.)
Defn: A plant, Rumex sanguineus, or bloody-veined dock. The name is applied also to bloodroot (Sanguinaria Canadensis), and to an extensive order of plants (Hæmodoraceæ), the roots of many species of which contain a red coloring matter useful in dyeing.
BLOODY
Blood"y, a. Etym: [AS. bl.]