blue 
blue (blo̵̅o̅)
adjective
- having the color of the clear sky or the deep sea
- having a bluish cast or tinge
Etymology: infl. by ME blo < ON blā, livid
livid: said of the skin- sad and gloomy; depressed or depressing
- balefully murky the air was blue with oaths
- puritanical; rigorous
- wearing blue garments Blue Nuns
- Informal indecent; risqué; suggestive
Etymology: ME & OFr bleu < Frank *blao < IE base *bhlē-wos, light-colored, blue, blond, yellow > L flavus, yellow, Brythonic blawr, gray, OE blæwen, blue, Ger blau
noun
- the color of the clear sky or the deep sea; any color between green and violet in the spectrum
- any blue pigment or dye
- bluing
- anything colored blue, as the third circle of an archer's target
- blue clothing
- a person or group wearing a blue uniform
- ☆ a Union soldier
- a sailor's blue uniform
- bluestocking
- ☆ bluefish
- blueline: usually used in pl.
transitive verb, intransitive verb blued, blu′·ing or blue′·ing
to make or become blue
out of the blue
as if from the sky; without being expected or foreseen
the blue
- the sky
- the sea
blue
modif.
One of the primary colors
of the color of the sky, azure, cerulean, sky-blue. Hues of blue include: indigo, watchet, sapphire, sapphirine, turquoise, smalt, lapis lazuli, aquamarine, aqua, blue-black, blue-green; royal, Prussian, navy, Dumont's, king's, starch, powder, baby, Paris, cobalt, Antwerp, Haarlem, mineral, Parma, Napoleon, Chinese, robin's egg, pale, teal, sky, slate, light, dark, deep, livid, electric, etc., blue.
*Despondent
depressed, moody, melancholy; see sad 1.
once in a blue moon
blue
n.
One of the primary colors
blueness, bluing, azure, sky blue; see blue (modif.) 1, color 1.Heavens
sky, vault of the sky, ether, the wild blue yonder*; see heaven 1, sky, space 1.
out of the blue
Converse of object
- banish: March 10th Town temporarily banish the away-day blues with a 2-2 draw at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
- sing: Did he break out the Muddy Waters albums and sing the blues?
Preposition: with
- stripe: It was painted in Caledonian blue with silver stripes edged in dark blue.
Adjective modifier
- pale: This meant that newer coaches appeared very pale blue in color, becoming more white or cream with time.
- dark: The areas of the ocean shown dark blue / purple are areas where there is not much life.
- bright: The best colors to wear are red or maroon and royal or bright blue, really helping to show a fish up well.
- vivid: This polarizing capability is what makes the tapetum the vivid blue which startled Ms Dacke.
- royal: Shown here in Raspberry but available in red, pink or royal blue.
Modifies a noun
- sky: There where no allied aircraft to be seen anywhere in the blue sky.
- eye: The anger he saw in the blue eyes couldn't hide the pain in Daniel's soul.
- jean: Think of them as like DVD region coding, only for blue jeans.
- plaque: English Heritage receives about 100 suggestions for blue plaques each year, all of which come from members of the public.
- tit: To dispel any doubt, Mitchell has had a dead blue tit stuffed.
- badge: The blue badge gives British badge holders parking advantages across Europe.
Noun used with modifier
- methylene: Methylene blue is a good example of a polychrome stain, which in this context really does amount to unpredictability.
- navy: The change strip is a similar design but is colored sky and navy blue.
- turquoise: The sea is a deep turquoise blue and the mountains are strikingly green.
- holly: Looking it up in the book it's what I suspected it was; a holly blue.
- sky: Most commonly asked question:- ' Why is the sky blue?
- cornflower: Aubergine, army green, muted coral and cornflower blue are most prevalent with accents of white here and there.
A Japanese young man, A blue and white young man, Francesca di Rimini, miminy, piminy, Je-ne-sais-quoi young man. 354
Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue. 805
I will get me a bottle of Boston sea And a blue-gum nigger to sing me blues. I am tired of loving a foreign muse.
The glassy peartree leaves and blooms, they brush The descending blue; that blue is all in a rush With richness.
Had I the heavens'embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
The blue ribbon of the turf.
The chic old blue-haired ladieschew in mute chandeliered isolation.
And drowned in yonder living blue The lark become a sightless song.
The new moon hangs like an ivory bugle In the naked frosty blue.
There is no blue without yellow and without orange.
In the house of words was a table of colors. They offered themselves in great fountains and each poet took the color he needed: lemon yellow or sun yellow, ocean blue or smoke blue, crimson red, blood red, wine red.
Higher still and higher From the earth thou springest Like a cloud of fire; The blue deep thou wingest And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest.
Thou who didst waken from his summer dreams The blue Mediterranean, where he lay, Lulled by the coil of his crystalline streams Beside a pumice isle in Baiae's bay, And saw in sleep old palaces and towers Quivering within the wave's intenser day, All overgrown with azure moss and flowers So sweet, the sense faints picturing them.
Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those?
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