blood-stained, a.
(ˈblʌdsteɪnd)
[An instrumental comb.: see blood n. VI, and stained.]
Stained with blood. lit. and fig.
| 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, i. iii. 107 Swift Seuernes flood..Blood-stained with these Valiant Combatants. 1725 Pope Odyss. xv. 301 The blood-stain'd exile, ever doom'd to roam. 1870 Bryant Iliad x. I. 303 O'er his shoulders threw the blood-stained hide. |