blood-shotten, a. (n.) arch.
(ˈblʌdˌʃɒt(ə)n)
[An instrumental combination like panic-stricken, blood-stained, f. shotten, pa. pple. of shoot v.; thus meaning ‘shot’ or suffused with blood.]
A. adj. Earlier form of blood-shot: now arch.
| ? 1507 Communyc. (W. de W.) B ij, My ghoostly eyen..ben blodeshotten with fleshly luste. 1544 Phaër Regim. Lyfe (1546) C vj, A wete cloute thereof..healeth blood⁓shotten eies. 1641 Ld. J. Digby Sp. in Ho. Com. 21 Apr. 11 Let us take heed of a blood-shotten eye of Judgement. 1850 B. Taylor Eldorado xliii. (1862) 431 My eyes..were strongly blood-shotten. |
† B. n. = blood-shot n. Obs.
| 1578 Lyte Dodoens ii. xxvi. 279 It is good against the webbe and bloudshotten of the eyes. |
Hence † ˈblood-ˌshottenness.
| 1659 Gauden Tears Ch. (1659) 60 Bring down such a Rheume and blood-shottennesse into mens eyes. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xiii. 391 Pain of the eyes, Inflammation, Bloudshottenness. |