† blood-shot, v. Obs.
(ˈblʌdʃɒt)
Also 7 blood-shoote.
[App. the original form was blood-shot, from the adj. without analysis (cf. to blind); blood-shoot being a later ‘rational’ alteration founded on analysis, as we might from panic-stricken deduce a verb to panic-strike.]
To make blood-shot.
| 1578 [cf. blood-shotting]. 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 69, I will bloud-shot mine eies, that all may seeme sanguine they looke on. 1632 Heywood Iron Age ii. v. i. Wks. 1874 III. 423 This sad spectacle, Which blood-shootes both mine eyes. 1643 Answ. Ld. Digby's Apol. 22 All that might bloud-shot other mens eys. |