blood-shottenadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈblʌdʃɒtn/, U.S.

/ˈblədˌʃɑtn/

Forms: late Middle English blood-schoten, 1500s bloude-shoten, 1500s bloude-shotten, 1500s–1600s bloud-shotten, 1500s– blood-shotten (now U.S. regional, rare).

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., English shotten , shoot v.

Etymology: < blood n. + shotten, past participle of shoot v. (compare shotten adj.). Compare bloodshot adj.

A. adj.

Suffused with blood; spec. = bloodshot adj. 1. Now U.S. regional and rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bloodshot

bloodshota1450

blood-shottenc1450

shottenc1460

sanguinous1490

bloodshed1583

sanguined1700

blood-run1703

blood-discoloured1871

c1450 W. Lichefeld Complaint of God (Lamb. 853) l. 307 in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 189 Þei ben blood schoten with fleischli lust.

1544 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot Regiment of Lyfe (new ed.) i. f. xvi A wete cloute thereof..healethe bloodshoten eyes.

1577 Hill's Gardeners Labyrinth ii. xx. 94 The Juice of the Onion is profitably annointed with hony for the clearing of the eyes, and bothe remoueth the Pinne and Webbes, and amendeth the bloude shotten eyes.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 357 To bloudshotten eies it is good..to wash them with the iuice of Selidonye.

1641 Ld. J. Digby Speech in Comm. 21 Apr. 11 Let us take heed of a blood-shotten eye of Judgement.

1655 Natura Exenterata 208 (heading) For a blood-shotten bruise over the Eye, by Mrs. Conway approved.

1725 J. Sedgwick New Treat. Liquors xviii. 339 In Ophthalmias, In Blood-shotten and inflammatory Fulnesses, such sudden Repellents are rash and mischievous.

1846 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 2 Dec. 360 At each periodicity her lungs become congested, eyes bloodshotten, face purple and suffused.

1906 Dial. Notes 3 127 His eyes were all bloodshotten.

†B. n.

The condition of being bloodshot. Cf. bloodshot n. 1, blood-shotting n. Obsolete. rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > bloodshot or bloodshot eye

bloodshot1552

blood-shotten1578

blood-shotting1578

hyposphagma1615

bloodshed1652

blood eye1658

blood-shottenness1659

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball ii. xxvi. 279 It is good against the webbe and bloudshotten of the eyes.

1681 E. R. Experienced Farrier (ed. 2) ii. 220 Medow Trefoyl or Honey-suckles is cold and dry.., the Juice dropped into the Eye taketh away the Pin and Web, and taketh away the Blood-shotten of them.

Derivatives

† blood-shottenness n. Obsolete rare = bloodshot n. 1.

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