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† gore blood, ˈgore-blood Obs. exc. dial.
[f. gore n.1]
1. Gore-like blood; clotted blood.
1573Twyne æneid xii. (1584) S viij, Downe strait he falles, & armour large with goareblood doth embrue. 1594? Greene Selimus Wks. 1881–3 XIV. 245 Then teare the old man peecemeal with my teeth, And colour my strong hands with his gore-blood. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 909 The ground..all stained with gore bloud. 1639Fuller Holy War iii. viii. (1640) 122 Leopoldus..fought..till his armour was all over gore bloud. 1685Baxter Paraphr. N.T., Acts xv. 29 Not eating strangled Creatures in the gore blood.
attrib.1681Hickeringill Black Non-Conformist (1682) A ij, A meer gore-blood Religion.
2. Freq. in phrases.
a. all on (in, of) a gore blood, all besmeared or covered with blood. (See also a-gore-blood.) Obs. exc. dial.
1559Becon Displ. Popish Mass Wks. 1563 III. 48 If ye would..cutte your selues with knyues tyll ye be all on a goreblood [etc.]. 1591Lyly Sappho iv. iii, I was all in a goare bloud. 1631Mabbe Celestina xiii. 151 His face..was all blacke and blue, and all of a goare-bloud. 1691tr. Emilianne's Obs. Journ. Naples 233 He..rowled himself stark naked upon Thistles and Thorns..and made all his Body on a Gore-blood. 1774Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 74 What, to whip them for every petty offence, till they are all in gore blood? 1840Spurdens Suppl. Forby's Voc. E. Anglia s.v., ‘All of a gore-blood’—a common pleonasm.
b. quasi-adj. (all) gore blood: Gory with blood, besmeared with gore. Obs. exc. dial.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 245 Scourged him..so terriblie, as..all his body was gore bloud. 1653H. Cogan tr. Pinto's Trav. ix. 29 The Flies and Gnats..bit and stung us in such sort, as not one of us but was gore blood. 1657Trapp Comm. Job v. 18 He wounds them with the wound of an enemy..and leaves them all gore blood. 1675Hobbes Odyss. (1677) 266 They killing went: all gore-blood was the hall. 1877Holderness Gloss., Gor-bleead.
Hence gore-bloody a.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Ensanglanté, gore bloudie. 1638T. Herbert Five Mad Shavers, Shee being thus naked and gore-bloody, they [etc.]. |