n, often attrib  1  :  the fluid that circulates in the heart, arteries, capillaries, and veins of a vertebrate animal carrying nourishment and oxygen to and bringing away waste products from all parts of the body  2  :  a fluid of an invertebrate comparable to blood  3  :  blood regarded in medieval physiology as one of the four humors and believed to be the seat of the emotions  4  :  descent from parents of recognized breed or pedigree .
 
 
 
Similar sounding terms:  bald  blade  Blat·ta  bld 
 
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