blood

Meanings

1. verbsmear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill
2. nounthe fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
3. nountemperament or disposition

Examples

the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions

a person of hot blood