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

  Bloodshot \Blood"shot`\, a. [Blood + shot, p. p. of shoot to
     variegate.]
     Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels
     turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or
     irritated.
     [1913 Webster]


  
           His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled.
                                                    --Dickens.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bloodshot
       adj : (of an eye) reddened as a result of locally congested blood
             vessels; inflamed; "bloodshot eyes"

















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