noun. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.

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noun. A pigment or dye imparting this hue.

noun. Bluing.

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noun. An object having this hue.

noun. Dress or clothing of this hue.

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noun. A person who wears a blue uniform.

noun. A dress blue uniform, especially that of the US Army.

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noun. A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.

noun. The Union Army.

noun. A bluefish.

noun. Any of various small blue butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

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noun. The sky.

noun. The sea.

adjective. Of the color blue.

adjective. Bluish or having parts that are blue or bluish, as the blue spruce and the blue whale.

adjective. Having a gray or purplish color, as from cold or contusion.

adjective. Wearing blue.

adjective. Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a blue square, indicating an intermediate level of difficulty.

adjective. Relating to or being a blue state.

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adjective. Gloomy; depressed. synonym: depressed.

adjective. Dismal; dreary.

adjective. Puritanical; strict.

adjective. Aristocratic; patrician.

adjective. Indecent; risqué.

transitive & intransitive verb . To make or become blue.

idiom. (blue in the face) At the point of extreme exasperation.

idiom. (into the blue) At a far distance; into the unknown.

idiom. (out of the blue) From an unexpected or unforeseen source.

idiom. (out of the blue) At a completely unexpected time.

noun. In archery: The third circle of the target, which is now usually colored blue. See target.

noun. An arrow which hits this circle; a hit in the blue. By the present method of scoring, such a hit counts 5.

noun. A name sometimes given to water-soluble induline.

noun. Same as bleu-de-roi (which see).

noun. A mixture of methylene-blue and methyl-violet.

To make blue; dye a blue color; color with bluing; make blue by heating, as metals, etc.

To blush.

Of the color of the clear sky; of the color of the spectrum between wave-lengths .505 and .415 micron, and more especially .487 to .460, or of such light mixed with white; azure; cerulean.

Livid; lead-colored: said of the skin or complexion as affected by cold, contusion, or fear (see blae): hence the phrase black and blue. See black.

Figuratively, afflicted with low spirits; despondent; depressed; hypochondriacal; having the blues.

Dismal; unpromising: applied to things: as, a blue lookout.

Inflexible; rigid; strict in morals or religion; puritanic: as, a blue Presbyterian: often in the form true blue (which see, below).

[With ref. to blue-stocking, q. v.] Learned; pedantic: applied to women.

Indecent; obscene: as, blue stories.

In Australia, the volcanic (basaltic) material in places overlying the Tertiary auriferous gravels.

"Light blue is more specific than ˜blue™ which is more specific than ˜colored.™"

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