BLOOD

Definitions

1. 1. To bleed. [Obs.] Cowper.
2. 2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic] Reach out their spears afar, And blood their points. Dryden.
3. 3. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war. It was most important too that his troops should be blooded. Macaulay.
4. 4. To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.] The auxiliary forces of the French and English were much blooded one against another. Bacon.