· 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"
Hypernym(s): liquid_body_substance, bodily_fluid, body_fluid, humor, humour
· temperament or disposition; "a person of hot blood"
Hypernym(s): disposition, temperament
· a dissolute man in fashionable society
Synonym(s): rake, rakehell, profligate, rip, roue
Hypernym(s): libertine, debauchee, rounder
· the descendants of one individual; "his entire lineage has been warriors"
Synonym(s): lineage, line, line_of_descent, descent, bloodline, blood_line, pedigree, ancestry, origin, parentage, stemma, stock
Hypernym(s): genealogy, family_tree
· people viewed as members of a group; "we need more young blood in this organization"
Hypernym(s): people
· smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill