a. (sb.) arch. [An instrumental combination like panic-stricken, blood-stained, f. shotten, pa. pple. of SHOOT v.; thus meaning ‘shot’ or suffused with blood.]
A. adj. Earlier form of BLOOD-SHOT: now arch.
? 1507. Communyc. (W. de W.), B ij. My ghoostly eyen … ben blodeshotten with fleshly luste.
1544. Phaër, Regim. Lyfe (1546), C vj. A wete cloute thereof … healeth blood-shotten eies.
1641. Ld. J. Digby, Sp. in Ho. Com., 21 April, 11. Let us take heed of a blood-shotten eye of Judgement.
1850. B. Taylor, Eldorado, xliii. (1862), 431. My eyes … were strongly blood-shotten.
† B. sb. = BLOOD-SHOT sb. Obs.
1578. Lyte, Dodoens, II. xxvi. 279. It is good against the webbe and bloudshotten of the eyes.
Hence † Blood-shottenness.
1659. Gauden, Tears Ch. (1659), 60. Bring down such a Rheume and blood-shottennesse into mens eyes.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XIII. 391. Pain of the eyes, Inflammation, Bloudshottenness.
