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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[

Blood

shot

, p. p. of

shoot

to variegate.]

Red and inflamed; suffused with blood, or having the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated.

His eyes were

bloodshot

, . . . and his hair disheveled.

Dickens.

Adj.

[blood and shoot.] Red and inflamed by a turgid state of the blood vessels, as in diseases of the eye.