meaning of bloody
1. Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
2. Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
3. Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
4. Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp. , marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.
5. Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.
6. A sweat accompanied by a discharge of blood; a disease, called sweating sickness, formerly prevalent in England and other countries.
7. To stain with blood.
8. The dysentery, a disease in which the flux or discharge from the bowels has a mixture of blood.
9. A hand stained with the blood of a deer, which, in the old forest laws of England, was sufficient evidence of a mans trespass in the forest against venison.
10. A red hand, as in the arms of Ulster, which is now the distinguishing mark of a baronet of the United Kingdom.
11. cover with blood; "bloody your
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