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Blue
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(superl.) Literary; - applied to women; - an abbreviation of bluestocking.
(2):
(superl.) 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):
(superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
(4):
(superl.) 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.
(5):
(superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
(6):
(n.) 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.
(7):
(v. t.) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
(8):
(n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
(9):
(superl.) 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.
(10):
(pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blue'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/blue.html. 1828.
