bloud

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A form of blood — A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow.

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Meanings

nounbloud (countable and uncountable, plural blouds)

plural blouds

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete form of blood.

    His cruell wounds with cruddy bloud congeald […]

    1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 68
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    It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.

    1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133
verbbloud (third-person singular simple present blouds, present participle blouding, simple past and past participle blouded)

present singular third person blouds · participle present blouding · participle past blouded · past blouded

  1. obsoleteObsolete form of blood.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bloud,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bloud.

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