a. [An instrumental comb.: see BLOOD sb. VI, and STAINED.] Stained with blood. lit. and fig.
1596. Shaks., 1 Hen. IV., I. iii. 107. Swift Seuernes flood … Blood-stained with these Valiant Combatants.
1725. Pope, Odyss., XV. 301. The blood-stain’d exile, ever doom’d to roam.
1870. Bryant, Iliad, X. I. 303. O’er his shoulders threw the blood-stained hide.
