BPage 285
- English Word Blue Definition Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
- English Word Blue Definition One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.
- English Word Blue Definition A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
- English Word Blue Definition Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
- English Word Blue Definition To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
- English Word Blue bonnet Definition Alt. of Blue-bonnet
- English Word Blue book Definition A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
- English Word Blue book Definition The United States official "Biennial Register."
- English Word Blue grass Definition A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
- English Word Blue jay Definition The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.
- English Word Blue-bonnet Definition A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman.
- English Word Blue-bonnet Definition A plant. Same as Bluebottle.
- English Word Blue-bonnet Definition The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus); the bluecap.
- English Word Blue-eye Definition The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.
- English Word Blue-eyed Definition Having blue eyes.
- English Word Blue-eyed grass Definition a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color.
- English Word Blue-john Definition A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes.
- English Word Blue-veined Definition Having blue veins or blue streaks.
- English Word Blueback Definition A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.
- English Word Blueback Definition A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.