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A member of the Los Angeles gang The Bloods.
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A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.
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The cultists gathered around a chalice of blood.
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A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood).
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One of the four humours in the human body.
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A blood test or blood sample.
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The sap or juice which flows in or from plants.
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The juice of anything, especially if red.
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Temper of mind; disposition; mood
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A lively, showy man; a rake; a dandy.
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A blood horse, one of good pedigree.
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Bloodshed.
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They came looking for blood.
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To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody.
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To let blood (from); to bleed.
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To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed.
Examples of bloods in a Sentence
So various are the conditions of selfregulation in various animals, both in respect of their peculiar and several modes of assimilating different foods, and of protecting themselves against particular dangers from without, that, as we might have expected, the bloods taken from different species, or even perhaps from different individuals, are found to be so divergent that the healthy serum of one species may be, and often is, poisonous to another; not so much in respect of adventitious substances, as because the phases of physiological change in different species do not harmonize; each by its peculiar needs has been modified until, in their several conditions of life, they vary so much about the mean as to have become almost if not quite alien one to another.
According to the census of 1900 the population of Mexico numbered 13,607,259, of which less than one-fifth (19%) were classed as whites, 38% as Indians, and 43% as mixed bloods.
It is probable that the returns have never been accurate in regard to the mixed bloods and Indians, but it is the general conclusion that the Indians have been decreasing in number, while the mixed bloods have been increasing.
By the young bloods of the "House" he was treated pleasantly as a raw outsider of genius.
The white population is estimated at 100,000 to 120,000, which probably includes many of mixed ancestry, and the mixed bloods at 300,000 to 450,000.
Only about one-fourth of the socalled Indians are full bloods.
If an Englishman slew an Irishman (except one of the five regal and privileged bloods) he was not to be tried for murder, for Irish law admitted composition (eric) for murder.
It looked as if Nature no longer contained the breed of nobler bloods, but stood on her last toes.
Pop. (1900), 161,697, including a large percentage of Indians and mixed bloods.
According to the census of 1872 the total population was 9,930,478, of which 1,510,806 were slaves; the race enumeration gave 3,787,289 whites, 1,959,452 Africans, 386,955 Indians, and 3,801,782 mixed bloods.
The population consists of a small percentage of whites of European descent, chiefly Spaniards, various tribes and settlements of Indians, largely of the Arawak and Carib families, and a large percentage of mestizos, or mixed bloods.
The census of 1895 increased the whites to 22%, which was apparently an error, the mixed bloods to 47%, and reduced the Indians to 31%.