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pure blood, n. and a.
[f. pure a. + blood n.]
A. n.
1. Unmixed inheritance or ancestry. Also fig.
1776[see blood n. 8]. 1884J. F. Maurice F. D. Maurice II. ii. 62 A number of the political economists of pure blood, who were..the fiercest in opposition to co⁓operation. 1945M. F. A. Montagu Introd. Physical Anthropol. vii. 201 The term ‘blood-relationship’..enshrines the belief that all biological relationships are reflected in, and are to a large extent, determined by the character of the blood. Such terms as..‘pure blood’,..and ‘good blood’ further reflect that meaning. 1963[see sense B]. 1971Biol. Abstr. LII. 12246/2 Investigation on the possibility of improving important properties of Sjenica sheep by breeding in pure blood and crossing with Corriedale and Precoce.
2. An animal or breed of unmixed inheritance.
1882Harper's Mag. May 895/1 The half and quarter breeds..seem to have..greater powers of resistance than the pure-bloods. 1894Rep. Vermont Board Agric. XIV. 166 Having bred pure bloods for almost thirty years. 1903Rep. Kansas State Board Agric. 1901–2 II. 63 Fifty per cent. can be added to the value if pure-bloods only are used in the northern half of this territory.
B. adj. Also hyphened. Of unmixed inheritance or ancestry; pure-bred.
1860Trans. State Agric. Soc. Michigan X. 355 The Durham cattle will keep as easy..as the pure blood, elegantly-constructed sprightly Devon. 1888Rep. Vermont Board Agric. X. 49 Why don't you get some pure blood Holsteins? 1963English Studies XLIV. 21 Only he and the other bears and the deer are pure-blood, and he is not so much distinguished from these other animals by his size and his age as he is representative of all pure blood, of all wildness before blood is mixed, of the wilderness itself. Ibid. 22 A pure-blood line Old Ben. |