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Definition of Blue

Blue 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. 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. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. 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. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking. 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. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy. To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc. Related Definitions: Abbreviation, Air, An, And, Applied, As, Betokening, Blue, Bluestocking, Brimstone, Burning, By, Candle, Clear, Color, Deep, Despondency, Divide, Dye, Feel, Fit, Flame, Glare, Glass, Gloom, Gloomy, Having, Heating, Hence, Hue, Impracticable, In, Inculcating, Into, Is, It, Lighter, Literary, Looked, Low, Light, Make, Melancholy, Mortality, Oaths, Of, One, Or, Over, Pale, Pedantic, Pigment, Poetically, Presence, Prism, Produce, Prospect, Redness, Refracted, Resembling, Said, Sapphire, Sea, Seven, Severe, Sky, Sometimes, Sour, Strict, Such, Suited, Suiting, That, The, Themselves, Through, To, Was, When, Whether, Which, Who, With, Without, Woman, Women

Blue Quotations I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes. e. e. cummings Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I. Oscar Levant Roll on, deep and dark blue ocean, roll. Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain. Man marks the earth with ruin, but his control stops with the shore. Lord Byron The politicians were talking themselves red, white and blue in the face. Clare Boothe Luce The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better. Thomas Carlyle

Blue Translations blue in Afrikaans is blou blue in Dutch is blauw blue in Finnish is sininen blue in French is bleu blue in Italian is turchino blue in Portuguese is azul blue in Spanish is azul

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