blooding

[ bluhd-ing ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

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.

First recorded in 1590–1600; blood + -ing ¹

After the blooding sleep very frequently followed, and a partial or sometimes a complete remission of the symptoms.

One of the questions was, whether the malady called for blooding—a question that had divided opinion as long ago as 1658.

Huxham appears to have adopted the whole Sydenhamian practice of blooding, blistering, purging, and salivating.

Through the spring months the trench raids continued in their process of "blooding" the new army for the "big push."

O Tony, says he, masters mare is blooding streams, and I be sent over to you to beg you to stop it.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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