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Word Meanings - BLOODLETTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

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  • BLOODSUCKER
    Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
  • APPLICABLE
    Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
  • BLOODSHEDDER
    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
  • OPENNESS
    The quality or state of being open.
  • BLOODULF
    The European bullfinch.
  • APPLICATIVE
    Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
  • BLOODROOT
    A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
  • LETTRURE
    See CHAUCER
  • PROCESSIVE
    Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
  • PROCESSIONALIST
    One who goes or marches in a procession.
  • APPLICANCY
    The quality or state of being applicable.
  • APPLICABILITY
    The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
  • LETTIC
    Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish. Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. -- n. The language of the Letts; Lettish. The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish,
  • OPEN SEA
    A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
  • APPLICATORILY
    By way of application.
  • BLOODY-MINDED
    Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
  • LETTERER
    One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
  • BLOODSHEDDING
    Bloodshed. Shak.
  • BLOODINESS
    1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
  • LETTERURE
    Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
  • 'SBLOOD
    An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
  • PROPENE
    See PROPYLENE
  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • UNAPPLIABLE
    Inapplicable. Milton.
  • DILETTANTE
    An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only. The true poet is not an eccentric creature, not a mere artist living only for art, not
  • BEBLEED
    To make bloody; to stain with blood. Chaucer.
  • REAPPLICATION
    The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
  • BRIOLETTE
    An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.
  • PROPENSE
    Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
  • BELLE-LETTRIST
    One versed in belleslettres.

 

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