bloud

bloud (countable and uncountable, plural blouds)

1. Obsolete form of blood.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, page 68:

     His cruell wounds with cruddy bloud congeald […]

   • 1650, Thomas Browne, “Of the Cameleon”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: , 2nd edition, London: A Miller, for Edw Dod and Nath Ekins, , →OCLC, 3rd book, page 133:

     It cannot be denied it [the chameleon] is (if not the moſt of any) a very abſtemious animall, and ſuch as by reaſon of its frigidity, paucity of bloud, and latitancy in the winter (about which time the obſervations are often made) will long ſubſist without a viſible ſuſtentation.

bloud (third-person singular simple present blouds, present participle blouding, simple past and past participle blouded)

1. Obsolete form of blood.

• boldu, bould

Inherited from Old Czech blúd.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: bloud

bloud m anim

1. fool

   Synonyms: pošetilec, bláhovec, blázínek

• “bloud”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “bloud”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
• “bloud”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)

bloud

1. Alternative form of blood