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"If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them."

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  1. noun The fluid consisting of plasma, blood cells, and platelets that is circulated by the heart through the vertebrate vascular system, carrying oxygen and nutrients to and waste materials away from all body tissues.
  2. noun A functionally similar fluid in animals other than vertebrates.
  3. noun The juice or sap of certain plants.
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  • "If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination; they shall be put to death, their blood is upon them." —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XX No 2
  • But she did not think as he did, or even as others did. —  Morgawr
  • Perhaps not testing the blood was a smart investigative tactic. —  Portrait of a Killer
  • My boss asked if the blood was my blood. —  Fight Club
  • "I did?" —  Flinx In Flux
 

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anemia · consanguine · ecchymosis · eosinophil · exsanguinate · exsanguinous · show · thrombus · hemophilia · infarction · leucocyte · methemoglobinemia · phagocyte · platelet · babesiosis · basophil

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  1. Middle English blod, from Old English blōd; see bhel-3 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = Scots bluid, blude; from Middle English blood, bloud, blud, blod, from Anglo-Saxon blōd (= Old Saxon blōd = OFries. blōd = Dutch bloed = Middle Low German blōt, Low German blood = Old High German bluot, Middle High German bluot, German blut = Icelandic blōdh = Swedish blod = Danish blod = Gothic (Moesogothic) blōth), blood; perhaps, with formative -d (-th), from the root of blōwan, English blow, bloom, flourish, with reference to either life or color.
  2. from blood, n.
 

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