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- adjective Obsolete form of
bloodshot .
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Examples
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His eye still sparkled with rays but little quenched by time, although unseasonable vigils sometimes rendered it bloodshotten.
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His eyes, once steady and clear as eagles ', were now bloodshotten and restless.
Danger 1847
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He says, however: 'The flowers of this raspis being tempered with honey, are good to be laid to watery or bloodshotten eyes, as also in erysipelas; being taken inwardly, and drunk with water, it is a comfortable medicine to a weak stomach.'
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 462 Volume 18, New Series, November 6, 1852 Various 1836
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