a. As warm as blood; of the normal temperature of blood in the body.
1577. B. Googe, Heresbach’s Husb. (1586), 130 b. Seeth them together … and give it him bludwarme in the morning.
1719. F. Hauksbee, Phys.-Mech. Exper., Supp., 255. I caus’d some Water to be heated about Blood-warm.
b. fig.
1837. Emerson, Misc. (1855), 94. This writing is blood-warm.
