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Word Meanings - HEMORRHAGE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any discharge of blood from the blood vessels. Note: The blood circulates in a system of closed tubes, the rupture of which gives rise to hemorrhage.

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  • 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
  • BLOODSHEDDER
    One who sheds blood; a manslayer; a murderer.
  • SYSTEMATIZE
    To reduce to system or regular method; to arrange methodically; to methodize; as, to systematize a collection of plants or minerals; to systematize one's work; to systematize one's ideas. Diseases were healed, and buildings erected, before medicine
  • BLOODULF
    The European bullfinch.
  • 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
  • GIVES
    Fetters.
  • CLOSEHANDED
    Covetous; penurious; stingy; closefisted. -- Close"hand`ed*ness, n.
  • SYSTEMLESS
    Not agreeing with some artificial system of classification. (more info) 1. Being without system.
  • BLOODY-MINDED
    Having a cruel, ferocious disposition; bloodthirsty. Dryden.
  • SYSTEMIZATION
    The act or process of systematizing; systematization.
  • CLOSEFISTED
    Covetous; niggardly. Bp. Berkeley. "Closefisted contractors." Hawthorne.
  • BLOODSHEDDING
    Bloodshed. Shak.
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • SYSTEMATISM
    The reduction of facts or principles to a system. Dunglison.
  • 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.
  • RUPTURED
    Having a rupture, or hernia.
  • SYSTEMATIST
    1. One who forms a system, or reduces to system. 2. One who adheres to a system.
  • RUPTUREWORT
    Same as Burstwort. A West Indian plant somewhat resembling burstwort.
  • SYSTEMATIZATION
    The act or operation of systematizing.
  • CLOSEN
    To make close.
  • 'SBLOOD
    An abbreviation of God's blood; -- used as an oath. Shak.
  • CYCLOSTYLE
    A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus converting it into a stencil. Copies are transferred
  • UNCLOSE
    1. To open; to separate the parts of; as, to unclose a letter; to unclose one's eyes. 2. To disclose; to lay open; to reveal.
  • ENCLOSE
    To inclose. See Inclose.
  • PARCLOSE
    A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. Hook.
  • BERTILLON SYSTEM
    A system for the identification of persons by a physical description based upon anthropometric measurements, notes of markings, deformities, color, impression of thumb lines, etc.
  • CONTINENTAL SYSTEM
    The system of commercial blockade aiming to exclude England from commerce with the Continent instituted by the Berlin decree, which Napoleon I. issued from Berlin Nov. 21, 1806, declaring the British Isles to be in a state of blockade, and British
  • CHAUTAUQUA SYSTEM OF EDUCATION
    The system of home study established in connection with the summer schools assembled at Chautauqua, N. Y., by the Methodist Episcopal bishop, J. H. Vincent.
  • CYCLOSTYLAR
    Relating to a structure composed of a circular range of columns, without a core or building within. Weale.
  • ENCLOSURE
    Inclosure. See Inclosure. Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure.
  • INCLOSER
    One who, or that which, incloses; one who fences off land from common grounds.
  • HALF-BLOODED
    1. Proceeding from a male and female of different breeds or races; having only one parent of good stock; as, a half-blooded sheep. 2. Degenerate; mean.

 

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