Blue

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·noun A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

II. Blue ·pl Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.

III. Blue ·superl Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

IV. Blue ·superl Literary;

— applied to women;

— an abbreviation of bluestocking.

V. Blue ·superl Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.

VI. Blue ·vt To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, ·etc.

VII. Blue ·superl Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets.

VIII. Blue ·superl Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

IX. Blue ·superl Pale, without redness or glare, — said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

X. Blue ·noun 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.

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