meaning of blue
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.
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.
3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
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.
6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
7. 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.
8. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
9. Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
10. A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers.
11. The United States official "Biennial Register. 12.">"
12. A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass.
13. The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue.
14. To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
15. Alt. of Blue-bonnet
16. blue clothing; "she was wearing
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