Word Meanings - BLOODLETTING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act or process of letting blood or bleeding, as by opening a vein or artery, or by cupping or leeches; -- esp. applied to venesection.

Related words: (words related to BLOODLETTING)

• BLOODSUCKER
  Any animal that sucks blood; esp., the leech (Hirudo medicinalis), and related species. 2. One who sheds blood; a cruel, bloodthirsty man; one guilty of bloodshed; a murderer. Shak. 3. A hard and exacting master, landlord, or money lender; an
• APPLICABLE
  Capable of being applied; fit or suitable to be applied; having relevance; as, this observation is applicable to the case under consideration. -- Ap"pli*ca*ble*ness, n. -- Ap"pli*ca*bly, adv.
• BLOODSHEDDER
  One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
• OPENNESS
  The quality or state of being open.
• BLOODULF
  The European bullfinch.
• APPLICATIVE
  Having of being applied or used; applying; applicatory; practical. Bramhall. -- Ap"pli*ca*tive*ly, adv.
• BLOODROOT
  A plant , with a red root and red sap, and bearing a pretty, white flower in early spring; -- called also puccoon, redroot, bloodwort, tetterwort, turmeric, and Indian paint. It has acrid emetic properties, and the rootstock is used as a stimulant
• LETTRURE
  See CHAUCER
• PROCESSIVE
  Proceeding; advancing. Because it is language, -- ergo, processive. Coleridge.
• PROCESSIONALIST
  One who goes or marches in a procession.
• APPLICANCY
  The quality or state of being applicable.
• APPLICABILITY
  The quality of being applicable or fit to be applied.
• LETTIC
  Of or pertaining to the Letts; Lettish. Of or pertaining to a branch of the Slavic family, subdivided into Lettish, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian. -- n. The language of the Letts; Lettish. The language of the Lettic race, including Lettish,
• OPEN SEA
  A sea open to all nations. See Mare clausum.
• APPLICATORILY
  By way of application.
• BLOODY-MINDED
  Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
• LETTERER
  One who makes, inscribes, or engraves, alphabetical letters.
• BLOODSHEDDING
  Bloodshed. Shak.
• BLOODINESS
  1. The state of being bloody. 2. Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness. All that bloodiness and savage cruelty which was in our nature. Holland.
• LETTERURE
  Letters; literature. "To teach him letterure and courtesy." Chaucer.
• 'SBLOOD
  An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
• PROPENE
  See PROPYLENE
• BLACK LETTER
  The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
• DILETTANTE
  An admirer or lover of the fine arts; popularly, an amateur; especially, one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge, desultorily, or for amusement only. The true poet is not an eccentric creature, not a mere artist living only for art, not
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• BEBLEED
  To make bloody; to stain with blood. Chaucer.
• REAPPLICATION
  The act of reapplying, or the state of being reapplied.
• BRIOLETTE
  An oval or pearshaped diamond having its entire surface cut in triangular facets.
• PROPENSE
  Leaning toward, in a moral sense; inclined; disposed; prone; as, women propense to holiness. Hooker. -- Pro*pense"ly, adv. -- Pro*pense"ness, n.
• BELLE-LETTRIST
  One versed in belleslettres.