blood

Verb

• smear with blood, as in a hunting initiation rite, where the face of a person is smeared with the blood of the kill

Noun

• people viewed as members of a group
  • we need more young blood in this organization
    

• the descendants of one individual
  • his entire lineage has been warriors
    

• a dissolute man in fashionable society

• temperament or disposition
  • a person of hot blood
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  rake , rakehell , profligate , rip , roue