blood :: Lexipedia - Where words have meaning

n. temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"

n. people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization"

n. the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped through the body by the heart and contains plasma, blood cells, and platelets; "blood carries oxygen and nutrients to the tissues and carries away waste products"; "the ancients believed that blood was the seat of the emotions"

Blood

n. [the fluid (red in vertebrates) that is pumped by the heart]

rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, blood, roue

n. a dissolute man in fashionable society

lineage, line, line of descent, descent, bloodline, blood line, blood, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock

n. the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"

blood

v. smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

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coquette, flirt, vamp, vamper, minx, tease, prickteaser

n. a seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

playboy, man-about-town, Corinthian

n. a man devoted to the pursuit of pleasure

rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet

n. a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

pervert, deviant, deviate, degenerate

n. a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

ancestry, lineage, derivation, filiation

n. inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline

kin, kin group, kinship group, kindred, clan, tribe

n. group of people related by blood or marriage

dynasty

n. a sequence of powerful leaders in the same family

house

n. aristocratic family line; "the House of York"

house

n. the management of a gambling house or casino; "the house gets a percentage of every bet"

race

n. people who are believed to belong to the same genetic stock; "some biologists doubt that there are important genetic differences between races of human beings"

parent

n. an organism (plant or animal) from which younger ones are obtained

patriarch

n. any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race

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offspring, progeny, issue

n. the immediate descendants of a person; "she was the mother of many offspring"; "he died without issue"

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