Obs. Also 7 blood-shoote. [App. the original form was blood-shot, from the adj. without analysis (cf. to blind); blood-shoot being a later ‘rational’ alteration founded on analysis, as we might from panic-stricken deduce a verb to panic-strike.] To make blood-shot.
1578. [cf. BLOOD-SHOTTING].
1593. Nashe, Christ’s T. (1613), 69. I will bloud-shot mine eies, that all may seeme sanguine they looke on.
1632. Heywood, Iron Age, II. V. i. Wks. 1874, III. 423. This sad spectacle, which blood-shootes both mine eyes.
1643. Answ. Ld. Digby’s Apol., 22. All that might bloud-shot other mens eys.
