Main entry: blood
Definition: temperament or disposition
Usage: a person of hot blood
Main entry: blood
Definition: the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets
Usage: blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products; the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions
Main entry: blood
Definition: people viewed as members of a group
Usage: we need more young blood in this organization
Main entry: pedigree, parentage, origin, blood, blood line, bloodline, ancestry, line, line of descent, lineage, descent, stemma, stock
Definition: the descendants of one individual
Usage: his entire lineage has been warriors
Main entry: rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue
Definition: a dissolute man in fashionable society
Main entry: blood
Definition: smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill