blooding >> /blʌd/
Definition: [verb] Initiate (someone) in a particular activity.
Example: clubs are too slow to blood young players
Definition: [verb] Smear the face of (a novice) with the blood of the kill.
Example: This long-forgotten mask was given to me out hunting when I was about nine, just after a kill when I was first blooded.
Definition: [noun] The red liquid that circulates in the arteries and veins of humans and other vertebrate animals, carrying oxygen to and carbon dioxide from the tissues of the body.
Example: drops of blood
Definition: [noun] Violence involving bloodshed.
Example: a commando operation full of blood and danger
Definition: [noun] Fiery or passionate temperament.
Example: a ritual that fires up his blood
Definition: [noun] Family background; descent or lineage.
Example: she must have Irish blood in her
Definition: [noun] A fashionable and dashing young man.
Example: a group of young bloods