King James Bible Dictionary

SANG, preterit tense of sing.

SANG FROID, noun

1. Coolness; freedom from agitation or excitement of mind.

2. Indifference.

SAN'GIAC, noun A Turkish governor of a province.

SANGUIF'EROUS, adjective [Latin sanguifer; sanguis, blood, and fero, to carry.]

Conveying blood. The sanguiferous vessels are the arteries and veins.

SANGUIFICA'TION, noun [Latin sanguis, blood, and facio, to make.]

In the animal economy, the production of blood; the conversion of chyle into blood.

SAN'GUIFIER, noun A producer of blood.

SANGUIF'LUOUS, adjective [Latin sanguis, blood, and fluo, to flow.] Floating or running with blood.

SAN'GUIFY, verb intransitive To produce blood.

SAN'GUIFYING, participle present tense Producing blood.

SAN'GUIN, adjective [Latin sanguineus, from sanguis, blood.]

1. Red; having the color of blood; as a sanguine color or countenance.

2. Abounding with blood; plethoric; as a sanguine habit of body.

3. Warm; ardent; as a sanguine temper.

4. Confident. He is sanguine in his expectations of success.

SAN'GUINE, noun Blood color. [Not in use.]

SAN'GUINE, verb transitive

1. To stain with blood. [But ensanguine is generally used.]

2. To stain or varnish with a blood color.

SAN'GUINARY, adjective [Latin sanguinarius, from sanguis, blood.]

1. Bloody; attended with much bloodshed; murderous; as a sanguinary war, contest or battle.

2. Blood thirsty; cruel; eager to shed blood.

Passion - makes us brutal and sanguinary

SAN'GUINARY, noun A plant.

SAN'GUINE,

SAN'GUINELESS, adjective Destitute of blood; pale. [A bad word and little used.]

SAN'GUINELY, adverb Ardently; with confidence of success.

SAN'GUINENESS, noun

1. Redness; color of blood in the skin; as sanguineness of countenance.

2. Fullness of blood; plethory; as sanguineness of habit.

3. Ardor; heat of temper; confidence.

SANGUIN'EOUS, adjective [Latin sanguineus.]

1. Abounding with blood; plethoric.

2. Constituting blood.

SANGUIN'ITY, for sanguineness, is not in use.

SAN'GUISUGE, noun [Latin sanguisuga; sanguis, blood, and sugo, to suck.]

The blood-sucker; a leech, or horse leech.