Blooding

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blood \Blood\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Blooded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Blooding}.]
     1. To bleed. [Obs.] --Cowper.
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     2. To stain, smear or wet, with blood. [Archaic]


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              Reach out their spears afar,
              And blood their points.               --Dryden.
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     3. To give (hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of
        blood, as in hunting or war.
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              It was most important too that his troops should be
              blooded.                              --Macaulay.
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     4. To heat the blood of; to exasperate. [Obs.]
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              The auxiliary forces of the French and English were
              much blooded one against another.     --Bacon.
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