[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blood \blood\ blu^d, n. oe. blod, blood, as. bl=od; akin
   to d. bloed, ohg. bluot, g. blut, goth. bl=othorn, icel.
   bl=oeth, sw.  dan. blod; prob. fr. the same root as e.
   blow to bloom. see blow to bloom.
   1. the fluid which circulates in the principal vascular
      system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of
      the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted.
      see under arterial.
      1913 webster

   note: the blood consists of a liquid, the plasma, containing
         minute particles, the blood corpuscles. in the
         invertebrate animals it is usually nearly colorless,
         and contains only one kind of corpuscles; but in all
         vertebrates, except amphioxus, it contains some
         colorless corpuscles, with many more which are red and
         give the blood its uniformly red color. see
         corpuscle, plasma.
         1913 webster

   2. relationship by descent from a common ancestor;
      consanguinity; kinship.
      1913 webster

            to share the blood of saxon royalty.  --sir w.
                                                  scott.
      1913 webster

            a friend of our own blood.            --waller.
      1913 webster

   half blood law, relationship through only one parent.

   whole blood, relationship through both father and mother.
      in american law, blood includes both half blood, and whole
      blood. --bouvier. --peters.
      1913 webster

   3. descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest
      royal lineage.
      1913 webster

            give us a prince of blood, a son of priam. --shak.
      1913 webster

            i am a gentleman of blood and breeding. --shak.
      1913 webster

   4. stock breeding descent from parents of recognized breed;
      excellence or purity of breed.
      1913 webster

   note: in stock breeding half blood is descent showing one
         half only of pure breed. blue blood, full blood, or
         warm blood, is the same as blood.
         1913 webster

   5. the fleshy nature of man.
      1913 webster

            nor gives it satisfaction to our blood. --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. the shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder;
      manslaughter; destruction.
      1913 webster

            so wills the fierce, avenging sprite,
            till blood for blood atones.          --hood.
      1913 webster

   7. a bloodthirsty or murderous disposition. r.
      1913 webster

            he was a thing of blood, whose every motion
            was timed with dying cries.           --shak.
      1913 webster

   8. temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; -- as
      if the blood were the seat of emotions.
      1913 webster

            when you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

   note: often, in this sense, accompanied with bad, cold, warm,
         or other qualifying word. thus, to commit an act in
         cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without
         sudden passion; to do it in bad blood, is to do it in
         anger. warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or
         irritated. to warm or heat the blood is to excite the
         passions. qualified by up, excited feeling or passion
         is signified; as, my blood was up.
         1913 webster

   9. a man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man;
      a rake.
      1913 webster

            seest thou not . . . how giddily 'a turns about all
            the hot bloods between fourteen and five and thirty?
                                                  --shak.
      1913 webster

            it was the morning costume of a dandy or blood.
                                                  --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   10. the juice of anything, especially if red.
       1913 webster

             he washed . . . his clothes in the blood of grapes.
                                                  --gen. xiix.
                                                  11.
       1913 webster

   note: blood is often used as an adjective, and as the first
         part of self-explaining compound words; as,
         blood-bespotted, blood-bought, blood-curdling,
         blood-dyed, blood-red, blood-spilling, blood-stained,
         blood-warm, blood-won.
         1913 webster

   blood baptism eccl. hist., the martyrdom of those who had
      not been baptized. they were considered as baptized in
      blood, and this was regarded as a full substitute for
      literal baptism.

   blood blister, a blister or bleb containing blood or bloody
      serum, usually caused by an injury.

   blood brother, brother by blood or birth.

   blood clam zool., a bivalve mollusk of the genus arca and
      allied genera, esp. argina pexata of the american coast.
      so named from the color of its flesh.

   blood corpuscle. see corpuscle.

   blood crystal physiol., one of the crystals formed by the
      separation in a crystalline form of the haemoglobin of
      the red blood corpuscles; haematocrystallin. all blood
      does not yield blood crystals.

   blood heat, heat equal to the temperature of human blood,
      or about 981/2 deg fahr.

   blood horse, a horse whose blood or lineage is derived from
      the purest and most highly prized origin or stock.

   blood money. see in the vocabulary.

   blood orange, an orange with dark red pulp.

   blood poisoning med., a morbid state of the blood caused
      by the introduction of poisonous or infective matters from
      without, or the absorption or retention of such as are
      produced in the body itself; toxaemia.

   blood pudding, a pudding made of blood and other materials.
      

   blood relation, one connected by blood or descent.

   blood spavin. see under spavin.

   blood vessel. see in the vocabulary.

   blue blood, the blood of noble or aristocratic families,
      which, according to a spanish prover, has in it a tinge of
      blue; -- hence, a member of an old and aristocratic
      family.

   flesh and blood.
       a a blood relation, esp. a child.
       b human nature.

   in blood hunting, in a state of perfect health and vigor.
      --shak.

   to let blood. see under let.

   prince of the blood, the son of a sovereign, or the issue
      of a royal family. the sons, brothers, and uncles of the
      sovereign are styled princes of the blood royal; and the
      daughters, sisters, and aunts are princesses of the blood
      royal.
      1913 webster
see also:
blow arterial corpuscle plasma half blood whole blood 
blood baptism blood blister blood brother blood clam argina pexata 
blood corpuscle blood crystal blood heat blood horse blood money 
blood orange blood poisoning blood pudding blood relation blood spavin 
spavin blood vessel blue blood flesh and blood in blood 
to let blood let prince of the blood 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

blood money \blood" mon`ey\
   1. money paid to the next of kin of a person who has been
      killed by another.
      1913 webster

   2. money obtained as the price, or at the cost, of another's
      life; -- said of a reward for supporting a capital charge,
      of money obtained for betraying a fugitive or for
      committing murder, or of money obtained from the sale of
      that which will destroy the purchaser.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

blood money
     n 1: compensation paid to the family of a murdered person
     2: a reward for information about a murderer
     3: paid to a hired murderer

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

44 moby thesaurus words for "blood money":
   account, allowance, amends, assessment, atonement, bill, blackmail,
   compensation, consideration, damages, emolument, fee, footing,
   guerdon, honorarium, hush money, indemnification, indemnity,
   initiation fee, meed, mileage, price, quittance, reckoning,
   recompense, redress, remuneration, reparation, requital,
   requitement, restitution, retainer, retaining fee, retribution,
   return, reward, salvage, satisfaction, scot, smart money, solatium,
   stipend, tribute, wergild

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