Blood - Definition

n 1: the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the
body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and
platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the
tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients
believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"
2: temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"
3: a dissolute man in fashionable society [syn: rake,
rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue]
4: the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has
been warriors" [syn: lineage, line, line of descent,
descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree,
ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock]
5: people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young
blood in this organization"
v 1: smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where
the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill