blood vs breeding

blood

noun
  • Temper of mind; disposition; mood 

  • A blood test or blood sample. 

  • Bloodshed. 

  • The juice of anything, especially if red. 

  • A vital liquid flowing in the bodies of many types of animals that usually conveys nutrients and oxygen. In vertebrates, it is colored red by hemoglobin, is conveyed by arteries and veins, is pumped by the heart and is usually generated in bone marrow. 

  • One of the four humours in the human body. 

  • A blood horse, one of good pedigree. 

  • A friend or acquaintance, especially one who is black and male. 

  • The sap or juice which flows in or from plants. 

  • A family relationship due to birth, such as that between siblings; contrasted with relationships due to marriage or adoption (see blood relative, blood relation, by blood). 

verb
  • To cause something to be covered with blood; to bloody. 

  • To let blood (from); to bleed. 

  • To initiate into warfare or a blood sport, traditionally by smearing with the blood of the first kill witnessed. 

breeding

noun
  • Nurture; education; formation of manners. 

  • The act of copulation in animals. 

  • Propagation of offspring through sexual reproduction. 

  • The good manners regarded as characteristic of the aristocracy and conferred by heredity. 

  • Descent; pedigree; extraction. 

  • Ejaculation inside the rectum during bareback anal sex. 

  • The act of insemination by natural or artificial means. 

adj
  • Of, relating to or used for breeding. 

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