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blue

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1. blue - Noun

2. blue - Adjective

3. blue - Verb

5. blue - Adjective Satellite

6. Blue - Proper noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal. Uma Thurman

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

We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. Barack Obama

Behind the clouds the sky is always blue. Norwegian Proverb

Because of a drop of blue dye,a whole pot of milk is contaminated. Malay Proverb

The sky is not the less blue because the blind man does not see it. Danish Proverb

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