blood

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

n. serum, essence; sap; gore; kindred; lineage, heritage. See relation, fluidity, ancestry, class.

II

(Roget's IV) n.

1. [Fluid in the mammalian circulatory system]

Syn. lifeblood, heart's blood, vital fluid, vital juices, gore, sanguine fluid, hemoglobin, plasma, serum.

2. [Lineage]

Syn. stock, ancestry, descent, line; see family 1 .

• bad blood,

Syn. malice, rancor, feud; see anger , hatred 2 .

• have someone's blood on one's head or [m1]• hands,

Syn. be blamable, be culpable, be responsible; see guilty 2 .

• in cold blood,

Syn. deliberately, intentionally, willfully, dispassionately; see deliberately .

Syn. cruelly, heartlessly, ruthlessly; see brutally .

• make one's blood boil,

Syn. disturb, infuriate, agitate; see anger 1 .

• make one's blood run cold,

Syn. terrify, horrify, scare; see frighten 1 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.

1. life-fluid hemoglobin, gore, plasma. ''A very special kind of sap.''—Johann Goethe.

2. kinship kindred, ancestry, pedigree, extraction, lineage, relatives.

IV

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

cruelly, intentionally, indifferently, unfeelingly.

V

(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun 1. The fluid circulated by the heart through the vascular system: gore. See BLOOD. 2. The crime of murdering someone: homicide, killing, murder. Slang: hit. See HELP. 3. One's ancestors or their character or one's ancestral derivation: ancestry, birth, bloodline, descent, extraction, family, genealogy, line, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, seed, stock. See KIN, PRECEDE. 4. Noble rank or status by birth: birth, blue blood, nobility, noblesse. See KIN, OVER.