bloud
See also: Bloud
English
    
    Noun
    
bloud (countable and uncountable, plural blouds)
- Obsolete form of blood.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 68:- His cruell wounds with cruddy bloud congeald […]
 
- 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:- It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.
 
 
Derived terms
    
Czech
    
    Etymology
    
Inherited from Old Czech blúd.
Pronunciation
    
- IPA(key): [ˈblou̯t]
- Hyphenation: bloud
Declension
    
Middle English
    
    
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