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Definition of blood : 1. A bloodthirsty or murderous disposition.
2. A man of fire or spirit; a fiery spark; a gay, showy man; a rake.
3. Descent from parents of recognized breed; excellence or purity of breed.
4. Descent; lineage; especially, honorable birth; the highest royal lineage.
5. Relationship by descent from a common ancestor; consanguinity; kinship.
6. Temper of mind; disposition; state of the passions; - as if the blood were the seat of emotions.
7. The fleshy nature of man.
8. The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste products to be excreted. See under Arterial.
9. The juice of anything, especially if red.
10. The shedding of blood; the taking of life, murder; manslaughter; destruction.
11. To bleed.
12. To give ( hounds or soldiers) a first taste or sight of blood, as in hunting or war.
13. To heat the blood of; to exasperate.
14. To stain, smear or wet, with blood.

Synonyms:

kind, extraction, course, line of products, help, stock certificate, rancor, birth, snag, declivity, source, relationship, occupation, gunstock, over, slant, stemma, melodic line, line of credit, inception, descent, hatred, downslope, pedigree, billet, killing, air, noblesse, livestock, decline, line of business, channel, furrow, phone line, short letter, linage, broth, ancestry, inventory, transmission line, agate line, ocellus, cable, bank line, murder, squanderer, personal line of credit, feud, root, Gore, credit line, prodigal, origin, rent, parentage, contrast, assembly line, profligate, business line, crosscurrent, personal credit line, business, store, argumentation, dividing line, tide rip, race, rakehell, telephone circuit, riptide, line of work, roue, rake, pipeline, communication channel, stock, strain, argument, railway line, nobility, genealogy, job, tear, seed, declension, parenthood, split, line, logical argument, bloodshed, crease, caudex, wrinkle, line of merchandise, farm animal, note, simple eye, filiation, derivation, fall, blood line, line of reasoning, gillyflower, alliance, breed, anger, homicide, blue blood, fund, precede, line of descent, rip, rail line, seam, production line, melody, declination, bloodline, pitch, hit, product line, rootage, subscriber line, origination, affinity, crinkle, beginning, countercurrent, tune, demarcation, telephone line, melodic phrase, neckcloth

clotheshorse, socialite, beau, dandy, dude, blade, swell, cavalier, peacock, fop, gallant, beauty

attendant, consanguine, dependent, akin, concomitant, supplemental, kindred, analogous, affiliated, correlative, relevant, ancillary, auxiliary, adjunct, associated, pertinent, germane, related, connected, coincident

fatherhood, motherhood, kinfolk, ancestor, family, lineage, clan, heredity, father, kinship, niece, fraternity, relation, nephew, brother, maternity, flesh, mother, aunt, sisterhood, sister, paternity, uncle, kin, consanguinity, brotherhood, cousin, relative

Usage examples:

• You don't know the proud Virginia blood. - "Friday, the Thirteenth", Thomas W. Lawson.
• How can Bausi give up Dogeetah who is his blood brother, and you, his friend? - "Allan and the Holy Flower", H. Rider Haggard.
• You say you fear that he has lost too much blood? - "The Prussian Terror", Alexandre Dumas.