blood —“To be
in” (a term of the chase), to be in good condition, to be vigorous:
“The deer was, as you know, sanguis, in blood,”
LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, iv. 2.
3
;
“If we be English deer, be then in blood”
1 HENRY VI., iv. 2. 48
; (
“of true mettle,”
JOHNSON)
“Thou rascal, thou art worst in blood to run,”
CORIOLANUS, i. 1. 157
(a rather difficult passage; see note);
“his crest up again and the man in blood,”
CORIOLANUS, iv. 5. 211.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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