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blooding
[ bluhd-ing ]
noun
, Chiefly British.
- (in fox hunting) an informal initiation ceremony in which the face of a novice is smeared with the blood of the first fox that person has seen killed.
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After the blooding sleep very frequently followed, and a partial or sometimes a complete remission of the symptoms.
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One of the questions was, whether the malady called for blooding—a question that had divided opinion as long ago as 1658.
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Huxham appears to have adopted the whole Sydenhamian practice of blooding, blistering, purging, and salivating.
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Through the spring months the trench raids continued in their process of "blooding" the new army for the "big push."
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O Tony, says he, masters mare is blooding streams, and I be sent over to you to beg you to stop it.
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