[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

blue \blue\ bl=u, a. compar. bluer bl=u"~er;
   superl. bluest. oe. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black,
   fr. icel.bl=ar livid; akin to dan. blaa blue, sw. bla,
   d. blauw, ohg. bl=ao, g. blau; but influenced in form by f.
   bleu, from ohg. bl=ao.
   1. having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it,
      whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue
      as a sapphire; blue violets. "the blue firmament."
      --milton.
      1913 webster

   2. pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence,
      of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence
      of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air
      was blue with oaths.
      1913 webster

   3. low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
      1913 webster

   4. suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as,
      thongs looked blue. colloq.
      1913 webster

   5. severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour
      religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals;
      inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality;
      as, blue laws.
      1913 webster

   6. literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of
      bluestocking. colloq.
      1913 webster

            the ladies were very blue and well informed.
                                                  --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   blue asbestus. see crocidolite.

   blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost
      black.

   blue blood. see under blood.

   blue buck zool., a small south african antelope
      cephalophus pygmaeus; also applied to a larger
      species aegoceras leucophaeus; the blaubok.

   blue cod zool., the buffalo cod.

   blue crab zool., the common edible crab of the atlantic
      coast of the united states callinectes hastatus.

   blue curls bot., a common plant trichostema
      dichotomum, resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also
      bastard pennyroyal.

   blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons
      suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low
      spirits. "can gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils,
      or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --thackeray.

   blue gage. see under gage, a plum.

   blue gum, an australian myrtaceous tree eucalyptus
      globulus, of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in
      tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as
      a protection against malaria. the essential oil is
      beginning to be used in medicine. the timber is very
      useful. see eucalyptus.

   blue jack, blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
      

   blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval
      uniform.

   blue jaundice. see under jaundice.

   blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to
      describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor
      reported to have been enacted in new haven; hence, any
      puritanical laws. u. s.

   blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue
      flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at
      sea, and in military operations.

   blue mantle her., one of the four pursuivants of the
      english college of arms; -- so called from the color of
      his official robes.

   blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed
      the blue pill. --mcelrath.

   blue mold or blue mould, the blue fungus aspergillus
      glaucus which grows on cheese. --brande  c.

   blue monday,
      a a monday following a sunday of dissipation, or itself
          given to dissipation as the monday before lent.
      b a monday considered as depressing because it is a
          workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend.
          

   blue ointment med., mercurial ointment.

   blue peter british marine, a blue flag with a white
      square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to
      recall boats, etc. it is a corruption of blue repeater,
      one of the british signal flags.

   blue pill. med.
      a a pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc.
      b blue mass.

   blue ribbon.
      a the ribbon worn by members of the order of the garter;
          -- hence, a member of that order.
      b anything the attainment of which is an object of great
          ambition; a distinction; a prize. "these
          scholarships were the --blue ribbon of the college."
          --farrar.
      c the distinctive badge of certain temperance or total
          abstinence organizations, as of the --blue ribbon
          army.

   blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. eng. slang --carlyle.

   blue spar min., azure spar; lazulite. see lazulite.

   blue thrush zool., a european and asiatic thrush
      petrocossyphus cyaneas.

   blue verditer. see verditer.

   blue vitriol chem., sulphate of copper, a violet blue
      crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico
      printing, etc.

   blue water, the open ocean.

   big blue, the international business machines corporation.
      wall street slang. pjc

   to look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.

   true blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed;
      not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising
      presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the
      covenanters.
      1913 webster

            for his religion . . .
            't was presbyterian, true blue.       --hudibras.
      1913 webster
see also:
bluer bluest bluestocking blue asbestus crocidolite blue black 
blue blood blood blue buck cephalophus pygmaeus aegoceras leucophaeus 
blue cod blue crab callinectes hastatus blue curls trichostema dichotomum 
bastard pennyroyal blue devils delirium tremens blue gage gage 
blue gum eucalyptus globulus eucalyptus blue jack blue stone 
blue jacket blue jaundice jaundice blue laws blue light 
blue mantle blue mass blue mold blue mould aspergillus glaucus 
blue monday blue ointment blue peter blue pill blue ribbon 
blue ruin blue spar lazulite blue thrush petrocossyphus cyaneas 
blue verditer verditer blue vitriol blue water big blue 
to look blue true blue 

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

blue blood \blue blood\ bl=u"blu^d`, n.
   1. a member of the nobility or aristocracy, or a person of
      high social status.
      1913 webster

   2. the quality of status that qualifies one as a blue
      blood; -- used metaphorically, as "they have blue blood
      in their veins.".
      -- blue"-blood`ed, adj.
      pjc
see also:
blue blood blue"-blood`ed 

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0

blue blood
     n : a member of the aristocracy syn: aristocrat, patrician
see also:
aristocrat patrician 

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

60 moby thesaurus words for "blue blood":
   brahman, ancestry, archduke, aristocracy, aristocrat,
   aristocraticalness, armiger, baron, baronet, birth, blood, carnage,
   count, daimio, distinction, duke, earl, elite, esquire, flower,
   genteelness, gentility, gentleman, gentry, grand duke, grandee,
   hidalgo, honorable descent, lace-curtain, laird, landgrave, lord,
   lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, nobility, noble,
   noble birth, nobleman, nobleness, optimate, palsgrave, patrician,
   peer, quality, rank, royalty, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking,
   society, squire, swell, thoroughbred, upper class, upper-cruster,
   viscount, waldgrave

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