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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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  • Specimens not so desirable will now and again appear, but the blood is there, and the divergence will not be great from the desired type. —  Cattle and Cattle-breeders
  • What froze my blood was the anticipation gradually shaping in my mind. —  The Best Short Stories of 1920 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Go With an imperious wave of the hand Maldar pointed toward the horizon, and the Mekkadem prostrated himself anew Yes," said Maldar to himself when the saint had gone, "they shall all die, and the stream of their blood will be the spring out of which Allah's warriors shall drink courage CHAPTER LI UARGLA Lost in the immensity of the desert, Uargla, the queen of the oases, was, up to thirty years ago, little known. —  The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I
  • From this cavity of the heart, the blood is carried into the right ventricle_, C; and from this ventricle, the pulmonary arteries_, D, convey into the lungs the blood which is returned from the body. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
  • The blood supply from which the bile would appear to be mainly extracted, is brought by the portal vein, but this blood is altogether unfit for the nutrition of the liver tissue; for this latter purpose a branch of the coeliac artery, the hepatic serves. —  Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata
 

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Etymologies (3)

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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.
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