'Blue' definitions:
Definition of 'blue'
From: WordNet
adjective
Of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke" [syn: blue, bluish, blueish]
adjective
Used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
adjective
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted" [syn: gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited]
adjective
Characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: blasphemous, blue, profane]
adjective
Suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip" [syn: blue, gamy, gamey, juicy, naughty, racy, risque, spicy]
adjective
Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician]
adjective
Morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior" [syn: blue(a), puritanic, puritanical]
adjective
Causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary]
noun
Blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue" [syn: blue, blueness]
noun
Blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
noun
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
noun
The sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue" [syn: blue sky, blue, blue air, wild blue yonder]
noun
noun
The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic [syn: amobarbital sodium, blue, blue angel, blue devil, Amytal]
noun
Any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
verb
Turn blue
Definition of 'Blue'
From: GCIDE
- Blue \Blue\ (bl[=u]), n.
- 1. 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; as, to fly off into the blue. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. pl. [Short for blue devils.] Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- Berlin blue, Prussian blue.
- Mineral blue. See under Mineral.
- Prussian blue. See under Prussian. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blue'
From: GCIDE
- Blue \Blue\ (bl[=u]), a. [Compar. Bluer (bl[=u]"[~e]r); superl. Bluest.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black, fr. Icel.bl[=a]r livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl[*a], D. blauw, OHG. bl[=a]o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. bl[=a]o.]
- 1. 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. "The blue firmament." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 5. 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. [1913 Webster]
- 6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- The ladies were very blue and well informed. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster]
- Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite.
- Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black.
- Blue blood. See under Blood.
- Blue buck (Zool.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygm[ae]us); also applied to a larger species ([AE]goceras leucoph[ae]us); the blaubok.
- Blue cod (Zool.), the buffalo cod.
- Blue crab (Zool.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus).
- Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant ({Trichostema dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroyal.
- Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --Thackeray.
- Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum.
- Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({Eucalyptus globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus.
- Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.
- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform.
- Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice.
- Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.]
- Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations.
- Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes.
- Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. --McElrath.
- Blue mold or Blue mould, the blue fungus ({Aspergillus glaucus}) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.
- Blue Monday, (a) a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent). (b) a Monday considered as depressing because it is a workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend.
- Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment.
- Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags.
- Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass.
- Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; -- hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These [scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the college." --Farrar. (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon Army.
- Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.
- Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite.
- Blue thrush (Zool.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas).
- Blue verditer. See Verditer.
- Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc.
- Blue water, the open ocean.
- Big Blue, the International Business Machines corporation. [Wall Street slang.] PJC
- To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.
- True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters. [1913 Webster]
- For his religion . . . 'T was Presbyterian, true blue. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blue'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'blue'
From: GCIDE
- Cod \Cod\, n. [Cf. G. gadde, and (in Heligoland) gadden, L. gadus merlangus.] (Zool.) An important edible fish (Gadus morrhua), taken in immense numbers on the northern coasts of Europe and America. It is especially abundant and large on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. It is salted and dried in large quantities. [1913 Webster]
- Note: There are several varieties; as shore cod, from shallow water; bank cod, from the distant banks; and rock cod, which is found among ledges, and is often dark brown or mottled with red. The tomcod is a distinct species of small size. The bastard, blue, buffalo, or cultus cod of the Pacific coast belongs to a distinct family. See Buffalo cod, under Buffalo. [1913 Webster]
- Cod fishery, the business of fishing for cod.
- Cod line, an eighteen-thread line used in catching codfish. --McElrath. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Blue'
From: Easton
- Blue generally associated with purple (Ex. 25:4; 26:1, 31, 36, etc.). It is supposed to have been obtained from a shellfish of the Mediterranean, the Helix ianthina of Linnaeus. The robe of the high priest's ephod was to be all of this colour (Ex. 28:31), also the loops of the curtains (26:4) and the ribbon of the breastplate (28:28). Blue cloths were also made for various sacred purposes (Num. 4:6, 7, 9, 11, 12). (See COLOUR.)
Words containing 'Blue'
- blueing,
- blues,
- out of the blue,
- Berlin blue,
- Big Blue,
- Blue Ash,
- Blue Bell,
- Blue Diamond,
- Blue Earth,
- Blue Eye,
- Blue Grass,
- Blue Hill,
- Blue Hills,
- Blue Island,
- Blue Lake,
- Blue Monday,
- Blue Mound,
- Blue Mounds,
- Blue Mountain,
- Blue Peter,
- Blue Point,
- Blue Rapids,
- Blue Ridge,
- Blue River,
- Blue Springs,
- Blue asbestus,
- Blue black,
- Blue blood,
- Blue bonnet,
- Blue book,
- Blue buck,
- Blue cod,
- Blue crab,
- Blue curls,
- Blue devils,
- Blue fire,
- Blue gage,
- Blue gum,
- Blue jack,
- Blue jacket,
- Blue jaundice,
- Blue jay,
- Blue laws,
- Blue light,
- Blue mantle,
- Blue mass,
- Blue mold,
- Blue mould,
- Blue ointment,
- Blue perch,
- Blue pigeon,
- Blue pill,
- Blue print,
- Blue ribbon,
- Blue ruin,
- Blue spar,
- Blue stocking,
- Blue stone,
- Blue tangle,
- Blue thrush,
- Blue verdigris,
- Blue verditer,
- Blue vitriol,
- Blue water,
- Blue wren,
- Cobalt blue,
- Coventry blue,
- Indigo blue,
- Mazarine blue,
- Methylene blue,
- Mineral blue,
- Mountain blue,
- Naphthol blue,
- Navy blue,
- Prussian blue,
- Pure blue,
- Saxon blue,
- Sevres blue,
- Sky blue,
- Thenard's blue,
- Thumb blue,
- To look blue,
- True blue,
- Turnbull's blue,
- Verditer blue,
- Williamson's blue,
- azodiphenyl blue,
- bavarian blue,
- black and blue,
- blue air,
- blue angel,
- blue baby,
- blue bass,
- blue beech,
- blue bice,
- blue bindweed,
- blue bugle,
- blue bull,
- blue cat,
- blue catfish,
- blue cheese,
- blue chip,
- blue cohosh,
- blue columbine,
- blue copperas,
- blue coral,
- blue daisy,
- blue darter,
- blue devil,
- blue elder,
- blue elderberry,
- blue fig,
- blue flag,
- blue fleabane,
- blue fox,
- blue funk,
- blue goose,
- blue grama,
- blue green,
- blue in the face,
- blue jasmine,
- blue jean,
- blue jeans,
- blue jessamine,
- blue jet,
- blue joke,
- blue language,
- blue law,
- blue lotus,
- blue mahoe,
- blue marguerite,
- blue marlin,
- blue mockingbird,
- blue moon,
- blue movie,
- blue murder,
- blue nile,
- blue note,
- blue orchid,
- blue pea,
- blue peafowl,
- blue pencil,
- blue petrel,
- blue pickerel,
- blue pike,
- blue pikeperch,
- blue pimpernel,
- blue pointed,
- blue poppy,
- blue racer,
- blue roach,
- blue runner,
- blue sage,
- blue shark,
- blue skullcap,
- blue sky,
- blue snowbird,
- blue star,
- blue stem,
- blue story,
- blue streak,
- blue succory,
- blue sunfish,
- blue thistle,
- blue tit,
- blue toadflax,
- blue tulip,
- blue velvet,
- blue wall,
- blue walleye,
- blue weed,
- blue whale,
- bright blue,
- bromophenol blue,
- bromothymol blue,
- bromphenol blue,
- bromthymol blue,
- cerulean blue,
- danish blue,
- dark blue,
- dress blues,
- french blue,
- greenish blue,
- iron blue,
- kentucky blue,
- once in a blue moon,
- pale blue,
- peacock blue,
- powder blue,
- purplish blue,
- reddish blue,
- rhythm and blues,
- royal blue,
- steel blue,
- ultramarine blue,
- blue bluish light-blue dark-blue,
- Blue Ash, OH,
- Blue Bell, PA,
- Blue Berry Hill,
- Blue Diamond, NV,
- Blue Earth County,
- Blue Earth, MN,
- Blue Eye, AR,
- Blue Eye, MO,
- Blue Grass, IA,
- Blue Hen State,
- Blue Hen's Chickens,
- Blue Hill, NE,
- Blue Hills, CT,
- Blue Island, IL,
- Blue Lake, CA,
- Blue Mound, IL,
- Blue Mound, KS,
- Blue Mound, TX,
- Blue Mounds, WI,
- Blue Mountain, AL,
- Blue Mountain, AR,
- Blue Mountain, MS,
- Blue Point, NY,
- Blue Rapids, KS,
- Blue Ridge Manor,
- Blue Ridge, AL,
- Blue Ridge, GA,
- Blue Ridge, TX,
- Blue Ridge, VA,
- Blue River, CO,
- Blue River, WI,
- Blue Springs, AL,
- Blue Springs, MO,
- Blue Springs, MS,
- Blue Springs, NE,
- Blue-blooded,
- Blue-bonnet,
- Blue-eye,
- Blue-eyed,
- Blue-john,
- Blue-skylaw,
- Blue-veined,
- Kentucky blue grass,
- Sanders-blue,
- Saunders-blue,
- Sky-blue,
- Smalt-blue,
- True-blue,
- black-and-blue,
- blue african lily,
- blue cardinal flower,
- blue channel cat,
- blue channel catfish,
- blue cheese dressing,
- blue collar worker,
- blue false indigo,
- blue mold fungus,
- blue mountain tea,
- blue point siamese,
- blue ribbon commission,
- blue ribbon committee,
- blue ribbon jury,
- blue ridge mountains,
- blue sky law,
- blue wall of silence,
- blue-belly,
- blue-black,
- blue-blind,
- blue-blindness,
- blue-bottle,
- blue-chip,
- blue-collar,
- blue-flowered,
- blue-fruited,
- blue-gray,
- blue-green,
- blue-grey,
- blue-lilac,
- blue-pencil,
- blue-purple,
- blue-ribbon,
- blue-sky,
- blue-violet,
- blue-white,
- colorado blue spruce,
- dark-blue,
- french ultramarine blue,
- gray-blue,
- grayish-blue,
- great blue heron,
- great blue shark,
- grey-blue,
- greyish-blue,
- insoluble Prussian blue,
- kentucy blue grass,
- kerry blue terrier,
- light-blue,
- like blue murder,
- lilac-blue,
- little blue heron,
- mauve-blue,
- mountain blue berry,
- peacock-blue,
- powdery-blue,
- purple-blue,
- purplish-blue,
- rhythm and blues musician,
- rhythm-and-blues,
- silver-blue,
- silvery-blue,
- southern blue flag,
- violet-blue,
- wild blue yonder,
- wooly blue curls,
- azure cerulean sky-blue bright blue,
- Blue Berry Hill, TX,
- Blue Earth County, MN,
- Blue Ridge Manor, KY,
- Blue-eyed grass,
- Blue-grass State,
- Blue-throated robin,
- baby blue-eyes,
- baby-blue-eyes,
- black-and-blue livid,
- blue-back mullet,
- blue-bellied lorikeet,
- blue-bellied parrot,
- blue-chip stock,
- blue-eyed mary,
- blue-footed booby,
- blue-green alga,
- blue-green algae,
- blue-headed vireo,
- blue-throated warbler,
- blue-winged teal,
- yellow-blue dichromacy,
- blue-eyed african daisy,
- blue-eyed yellow warbler,
- maiden blue-eyed mary,
- yellow-blue color blindness,
- blae bluish-black or gray-blue,
- Polemonium coeruleum having corymbs of drooping flowers usually blue Gray,
- propertyless wage-earning working-class blue-collar