† gore blood, ˈgore-blood Obs. exc. dial.
[f. gore n.1]
1. Gore-like blood; clotted blood.
| 1573 Twyne 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. 1603 Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 909 The ground..all stained with gore bloud. 1639 Fuller Holy War iii. viii. (1640) 122 Leopoldus..fought..till his armour was all over gore bloud. 1685 Baxter Paraphr. N.T., Acts xv. 29 Not eating strangled Creatures in the gore blood. |
| attrib. 1681 Hickeringill 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.| 1559 Becon Displ. Popish Mass Wks. 1563 III. 48 If ye would..cutte your selues with knyues tyll ye be all on a goreblood [etc.]. 1591 Lyly Sappho iv. iii, I was all in a goare bloud. 1631 Mabbe Celestina xiii. 151 His face..was all blacke and blue, and all of a goare-bloud. 1691 tr. Emilianne's Obs. Journ. Naples 233 He..rowled himself stark naked upon Thistles and Thorns..and made all his Body on a Gore-blood. 1774 Wesley Wks. (1872) XI. 74 What, to whip them for every petty offence, till they are all in gore blood? 1840 Spurdens 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.| 1631 Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 245 Scourged him..so terriblie, as..all his body was gore bloud. 1653 H. 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. 1657 Trapp Comm. Job v. 18 He wounds them with the wound of an enemy..and leaves them all gore blood. 1675 Hobbes Odyss. (1677) 266 They killing went: all gore-blood was the hall. 1877 Holderness Gloss., Gor-bleead. |
Hence
gore-bloody a.| 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Ensanglanté, gore bloudie. 1638 T. Herbert Five Mad Shavers, Shee being thus naked and gore-bloody, they [etc.]. |