Birthright - BIRTH'RIGHT, n. [birth and right.] Any right or privilege, to which a person is entitled by birth,
such as an estate descendible by law to an heir, or civil liberty under a free constitution.
Esau, for a morsel, sold his birthright. Heb 12.
It may be used in the sense of primogeniture, or the privilege of the first born, but is applicable
to any right which results from descent.
Bless - BLESS, v.t. pret. and ppr. blessed or blest.
1. To pronounce a wish of happiness to one; to express a wish or desire of happiness.
And Isaac called Jacob and blessed him. Gen 28.
2. To make happy; to make successful; to prosper in temporal concerns; as, we are blest with
peace and plenty.
The Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thou doest. Deu 15.
3. To make happy in a future life.
Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord. Rev 14.
4. To set apart or consecrate to holy purposes; to make and pronounce holy.
And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified it. Gen 2
5. To consecrate by prayer; to invoke a blessing upon.
And Jesus took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven he blessed them.
Luke 9.
6. To praise; to glorify, for benefits received.
Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me. Psa 103.
7. To praise; to magnify; to extol, for excellencies. Psa 104.
8. To esteem or account happy; with the reciprocal pronoun.
The nations shall bless themselves in him. Jer 4.
9. To pronounce a solemn prophetical benediction upon. Gen 27. Deu 33.
10. In this line of Spenser, it may signify to throw, for this is nearly the primary sense.
His sparkling blade about his head he blest.
Johnson supposes the word to signify to wave or brandish, and to have received this sense
from the old rite of blessing a field, by directing the hands to all parts of it.
Bless in Spenser for bliss, may be so written, not for rhyme merely, but because bless and bliss
are from the same root.
Blessed - BLESS'ED, pp. Made happy or prosperous; extolled; pronounced happy.
BLESS'ED, a. Happy; prosperous in worldly affairs; enjoying spiritual happiness and the favor of
God; enjoying heavenly felicity.
Blessing - BLESS'ING, ppr. Making happy; wishing happiness to; praising or extolling; consecrating by
prayer.
BLESS'ING,n. Benediction; a wish of happiness pronounced; a prayer imploring happiness upon
another.
1. A solemn prophetic benediction, in which happiness is desired, invoked or foretold.
This is the blessing wherewith Moses‐‐blessed the children of Israel. Deu 33.
2. Any means of happiness; a gift, benefit or advantage; that which promotes temporal
prosperity and welfare, or secures immortal felicity. A just and pious magistrate is a public
blessing. The divine favor is the greatest blessing.
3. Among the Jews, a present; a gift; either because it was attended with kind wishes for the
welfare of the giver, or because it was the means of increasing happiness.
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee. Gen 33.
Blood - BLOOD, n.
1. The fluid which circulates through the arteries and veins of the human body, and of other animals,which is essential to the preservation of life. This fluid is generally red. If the blood of an animal is not red, such animal is called exsanguious, or white-blooded; the blood being white, or white tinged with blue.
2. Kindred; relation by natural descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity.
God hath made of one blood, all nations of the earth. Acts 17.
3. Royal lineage; blood royal; as a prince of the blood.
4. Honorable birth; high extraction; as a gentleman of blood.
5. Life.
Shall I not require his blood at your hands? 2 Sam 4.
6. Slaughter; murder, or bloodshedding.
I will avenge the blood of Jezreel upon the house of Jehu. Hosea 1.
The voice of thy brother's blood crieth to me from the ground. Gen 4.
7. Guilt, and punishment.
Your blood be upon your own heads. Acts 18.
8. Fleshly nature;; the carnal part of man; as opposed to spiritual nature,or divine life.
Who were born, not of flesh and blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. John 1.
9. Man, or human wisdom, or reason.
Flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee,but my Father who is in heaven. Mat 16.
10. A sacramental symbol of the blood of Christ.
This is my blood of the New Testament, which is shed for the remission of sins. Mat 26.
11. The death and sufferings of Christ.
Being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Rom 5:3.
12. The price of blood; that which is obtained by shedding blood,and seizing goods.
Wo to him that buildeth a town with blood. Hab 2. Acts 1.
13. Temper of mind; state of the passions; but in this sense, accompanied with cold or warm, or other qualifying word. Thus to commit an act in cold blood, is to do it deliberately, and without sudden passion. Warm blood denotes a temper inflamed or irritated; to warm or head the blood, is to excite the passions.
14. A hot spark; a man of fire or spirit; a rake.
15. The juice of any thing, especially if red; as, "the blood of grapes." Gen 49.
Whole blood. In law, a kinsman of the whole blood is one who descends from the same couple of ancestors; of the half blood, one who descends from either of them singly, by a second marriage.
BLOOD, v.t. To let blood; to bleed by opening a vein.
1. To stain with blood.
2. To enter; to inure to blood; as a hound.
3. To heat the blood; to exasperate. [Unusual.]