These 13 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Blood, Blood Flower, Blood Poisoning.
COUNCIL OF, the name popularly applied to the Council of Troubles, established by the Duke of Alva, in the Netherlands, in 1567. In the first three months alone its victims numbered 1,800, and soon there was hardly a Protestant house in the Netherlands that had not furnished a victim.
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THOMAS (commonly called Colonel Blood), born in Ireland about 1618, was a disbanded officer of Oliver Cromwell, and lost some estates in Ireland at the Restoration. His whole life was one of plotting and adventure, though it is probable that he acted a double part, keeping the Government informed of so much as might secure his own safety. His most daring exploit was an attempt to steal the crown jewels (May 9, 1671) from the Tower. He was seized with the crown in his possession, but was not only pardoned by Charles, but obtained forfeited Irish estates of £500 annual value. He died in London, in 1680. BLOODBIRD (myzoměla sanguinolenta), an Australian species of honey-
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the English name of the hæmanthus, a genus of plants belonging to the order amaryllidaceæ (amaryllids). The allusion is to the brilliant red flowers. The species, which are mostly from the Cape of Good Hope, are ornamental plants.
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a name loosely used of pyæmia and allied diseases. It is also used popularly in a wider sense for the results on the human system of poison germs from malaria, bad drains, etc.; or for the condition of the blood caused by such ailments as Bright's disease of the kidneys, etc.
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rain nearly of the color of blood, and which many of the unscientific suppose to be actual blood. It arises either from minute plants, mostly of the order algæ, or from infusorial animalcule. It is akin to red snow, which is similarly produced. The word also applies to a bright scarlet alga or fungus, called palmella prodigiosa, sometimes developed in very hot weather on cooked vegetables or decaying fungi. BLOOD ROOT (sanguinaria canadensis), a plant of Canada and the United States, belonging to the poppy order, and so named from its root stock yielding a sap of a deep orange color. Its leaves are heart-shaped and deeply lobed, the flower grows on a scape and is white or tinged with rose. The plant has acrid narcotic properties, and has been found useful in various diseases. Geum canadense, another American plant used as a mild tonic, is also known as blood root.
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a variety of jaspery quartz, flecked with red spots like drops of blood.
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the tubes or vessels in which the blood circulates.
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a name of several trees. Indian bloodwood (lagerstræmia reginæ), is a large tree of the henna family, with wood of a blood-red color, used for many purposes. It is called also jarool.
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same as blood root (sanguinaria).
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a variety of hound or dog, so called from the ability which it possesses to trace a wounded animal by the smell of any drops of blood which may have fallen from it. It is the canis familiaris, variety B. sagax, of Linnæus, now called variety sanguinaria. It is the sleuth-hound of the Scotch. It has large, pendulous ears, a long curved tail, is of a reddish tan color, and stands about 28 inches high. The breed is not now often pure. There are other subvarieties, especially the Cuban blood-hound, used in the Maroon wars in Jamaica during the 18th century, as well as in tracking criminals in the United States. The African blood-hound is used in hunting the gazelle.
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the so-called bloodless surgery brought prominently before the public by the visit to this country of Dr. Adolf Lorenz of Vienna; in 1902, was used during the above trip in the treatment particularly of congenital dislocation of the hip, a condition in children which often leads to serious deformity. But Lorenz advocates the method for many other conditions. In an address before the New York Academy of medicine during his American tour the doctor mentioned the following conditions as amenable to his "modelling redressment" as he calls his manipulations: hip deformities, knee contractures, all deformities of the foot, and wry neck. The Lorenz method consists essentially of a tearing of muscles and ligaments, followed by replacement of the displaced bone. The usual or bloody method consists of a cutting of the tissues. As a matter of fact the bloodless surgery is often about as bloody as when the knife is used, the only difference being that the blood in the former case flows out among the tissues instead of appearing on the surface through the knife wound. The Lorenz method is not without danger. It appears to be useful in certain cases, but the knife is preferred by the average surgeon and orthopedist in most cases.
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a noticeable woodland flower of early spring. The white petals fall off soon after they come out. A large kidney-shaped leaf springs up beside each flower stalk. The leaves, flower stalks, and root-stocks are charged with a yellowish red juice that oozes out wherever they are broken. The blossom makes a handsome starry appearance above the dead leaves. In spite of its disagreeable juice it is endeared to children. "Bloodroots are out," is always hailed as an announcement of the happy flower season and of rambles in the woods. The bloodroot is a member of the poppy family. It is found only in the eastern United States and Canada. The plant has valuable medicinal qualities allied to those of opium. See Poppy 2026 Editor's Note: That "disagreeable juice" carries a modern warning. Bloodroot contains sanguinarine, and it is the active ingredient in the so-called "black salve" still sold online as a cancer cure — a corrosive paste that destroys healthy tissue and has left users with disfiguring wounds while the disease spreads underneath. Native Americans used the sap far more sensibly, as a dye. (Ed: BR 2026-06-19)
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those held in England, by Judge Jeffreys, in 1685, after the suppression of Monmouth's rebellion. Upward of 300 persons were executed after short trials; very many were whipped, imprisoned and fined; and nearly 1,000 were sent as slaves to the American plantations.
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