blood （“flesh and , let” (a person) “ ” are freq.; “man of blood” Mac. III. iv. 126, 4 a hunting expression)
1.
vital fluid,
(hence) life
Rom. III. i. 189
“the price of his dear
blood.”
2.
supposed source of
emotion, (hence) passion Ado II. i.
189, “faith melteth
into blood”; temper, mood, disposition
Ado I. iii. 30
“it better fits my
blood,”
2H4 IV. iv. 38, Tim. IV. ii. 38,
Ham. III. ii. 74
“Whose blood and
judgment are so well comingled”
; (emphatically) high temper, mettle, anger
Mer.V. I. ii. 20, Lr. IV. ii. 64.
3.
fleshly nature of man
Tp. IV. i. 53
“the fire i' the
blood,”
Compl. 162.
4.
“in blood,” in full
vigour, full of life LLL. IV. ii.
4, 1H6 IV. ii. 48, Cor. I. i. 165 (‘art in the worst condition for running’),
IV. v. 226.
5.
blood-relationship,
(hence) parentage, descent, stock, kindred Meas. III. i. 141, MND. I. i. 135, AYL. I. i. 48,
John IV. ii. 99
“That blood which
ow'd”
(=owned) “the breadth
of all this isle,”
1H6 IV. v. 16,
Mac. II. iii. 147
“the near in , The
nearer bloody.”
6.
good parentage or
stock
Gent. III. i. 121
“a gentleman of
blood,”
Troil. III. iii. 26.
7.
man of fire, spirit,
or mettle Ado III. iii. 140, LLL. V. ii. 713,
Cæs. I. ii. 150
“the breed of noble
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