(a.) Containing or resembling blood; of the nature of blood; as, bloody excretions; bloody sweat.
(a.) Smeared or stained with blood; as, bloody hands; a bloody handkerchief.
(a.) Given, or tending, to the shedding of blood; having a cruel, savage disposition; murderous; cruel.
(a.) Attended with, or involving, bloodshed; sanguinary; esp., marked by great slaughter or cruelty; as, a bloody battle.
(a.) Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet.
(v. t.) To stain with blood.
Example Sentences:
(1) After violence had run its bloody course, the country’s rulers conceded it had been a catastrophe that had brought nothing but “grave disorder, damage and retrogression”.
(2) Among them 8 cases were coelio-drained for 24 hours with very little thin bloody drainage.
(3) 83 women aborted within 24 hours; 6 women who had not aborted within 24 hours were given Pitocin in order to stimulate contractions; the amniotic fluid was bloody in 2 patients, and the procedure was termianted; 1 patient did not respond at all to the procedure initially, but returned in 1 week and had a successful abortion at that time.
(4) One is to shoot them in the head and cry about the bloody aftermath.
(5) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(6) SW: Yes she bloody did, did you not hear that pause?
(7) A bloody nasogastric aspirate is believed to imply active upper gastrointestinal tract bleeding, while a nonbloody yellow-green nasogastric aspirate that contains duodenal secretions suggests the absence of bleeding proximal to the ligament of Treitz.
(8) Bloody odd combination but those Orange Foam Headphones would blast those magnificent records into my developing brain over and over again" chernypyos – Björk's Human Behavior and Sinead O'Connor's Fire On Babylon: "bjork's 'human behavior' and sinead o'connor's "fire on babylon" oddly stick in my head from that one evening walking in the woods, breathing the damp air, and feeling pleasantly invisible" Pyromancer – REM – Automatic for the People Blood Sugar Sex Magic Pearl Jam - Vs RATM's first album Portishead Maxinquaye by Tricky Manic Street Preachers – Gold Against the Soul Smashing Pumpkins, Siamese Dream "I used to go to the local library and take out a CD (50p for 3 weeks!
(9) Of course, when you're bloody nearly 80 it's depressing, because you've had it anyway."
(10) "Sometimes a handshake is just a handshake, but when the leader of the free world shakes the bloody hand of a ruthless dictator like Raúl Castro , it becomes a propaganda coup for the tyrant," said Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican Congress member in Florida, told the US secretary of state, John Kerry.
(11) Almost three years after US troops withdrew from Iraq and 11 years after their invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein, the war on Islamic State is drawing Washington back into the middle of Iraq’s power struggles and bloody sectarian strife.
(12) Karmani described Respect as "the naughty children" of Bradford – "and with parents like that, what do you bloody expect?"
(13) Bloody errors at civilians' expense, as recorded in the logs, include the day French troops strafed a bus full of children in 2008, wounding eight.
(14) Even as the sounds of missiles around Şemdinli abate, news of bloody clashes elsewhere in the region keeps locals on their toes.
(15) Sometimes the public’s legitimate fears are exposed: in Colombia there’s no doubt the public felt uneasy about forgiving Farc for its bloody violence.
(16) Since the bloody coup of 1979, South Korea seems to have had journalistic carte blanche as the "lesser of two evils".
(17) And we didn’t want a bloody female one – at least the last guy was cute.
(18) Well you hadn't brought it up which is a bloody miracle after 20 minutes.
(19) When David Tennant was waxing eloquent in that legal drama The Escape Artist, no one yelled out from the jury that his watch looked bloody expensive.
(20) The major symptoms of intussusception were bloody diarrhoea (87.17%), vomiting.
Broody
Definition:
(a.) Inclined to brood.
Example Sentences:
(1) The kinds of audience investigated included the mate, unfamiliar females, other females and males with which subjects had had prior visual and auditory contact, and broody hens with and without young.
(2) Plasma concentrations of prolactin and corticosterone were determined in hourly samples collected over a 25-hr period from unrestrained turkey hens exhibiting incubation (broody) behavior.
(3) Under resting conditions thoracic skin temperature (Tths) and metabolic heat production (M) were significantly higher in broody than in non-broody hens, indicating a permanently increased conductance of the brood patch.
(4) The relation between metabolic rate and total peripheral resistance indicated more intense vasodilation for broody hens at the relatively low metabolic rates during moderate cooling, and more intense vasoconstriction for the broody hens at the high metabolic rates during stronger cooling.
(5) Body temperatures, metabolic rate, haemostatic parameters, and cardiovascular reactions to thoracic skin cooling were compared between incubating (broody) and non-broody Bantam hens.
(6) In broody hens, these coolings induced a large, immediate increase in M, no constriction of brood patch vasculature, and a decrease in colonic temperature (Tc).
(7) A higher thoracic skin temperature (Tths) for broody hens compared to non-broody hens suggests that brood patches are the probable site of this increased flow through arteriovenous anastomoses (AVAs).
(8) This treatment did not reduce broody behavior or have any beneficial effect on egg production.
(9) Under resting conditions, without thoracic skin cooling, cardiac output of broody hens was twice that of non-broody hens.
(10) Improved egg production was achieved both through an increase in the rate of egg production and through a reduction in broodiness.
(11) Hens also produced more (P less than .05) eggs when maintained under cyclic temperature conditions, although this observation was tempered by the fact that fewer hens were broody.
(12) Genetic changes in average clutch length, total days lost from broodiness, fertility, and response to cold stress did not have a major influence on semen production in the turkey.
(13) In addition, egg quality, broodiness, floor egg production, and poult weight data were obtained in Experiment 2.
(14) During moderate cooling, vasoconstriction in the feet and wattles of broody hens (but not of non-broody hens) freed non-nutrient blood flow for redistribution to the brood patches.
(15) Synthesis and release rates of prolactin and growth hormone (GH) in the anterior pituitary of laying and incubating broody chickens (Nagoya breed) were determined by a disc electrophoretic technique after in vitro incubation of anterior pituitaries with a labeled amino acid.
(16) In these hens, broodiness was disrupted on day 6 and feeding activity subsequently increased to levels of photorefractory hens.
(17) The RBC1 turkeys had linear increases in the percentage of broody hens during the first 84 and 180 days of production, the average length of the broody period, and the total number of days lost to broodiness during the 180-day period.
(18) When expressed as a deviation from RBC1, positive quadratic curvilinear changes were observed for E turkeys for number of clutches and broody periods, and days lost to broodiness during the first 180 days of production.
(19) Thoracic skin cooling from 35 to 25 degrees C decreased Tths less in broody than in non-broody hens.
(20) An assessment was made of the possible role of hypothalamic 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) in the regulation of prolactin secretion in broody bantam hens.