Blue (superl.) Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker |
Blue (superl.) Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame |
Blue (superl.) Low in spirits |
Blue (superl.) Suited to produce low spirits |
Blue (superl.) Severe or over strict in morals |
Blue (superl.) Literary |
Blue (n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism |
Blue (n.) A pedantic woman |
Blue (pl.) Low spirits |
Blue (v. t.) To make blue |
Blue bonnet (n.) Alt. of Blue-bonnet |
Blue-bonnet (n.) A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap |
Blue-bonnet (n.) A plant. Same as Bluebottle. |
Blue-bonnet (n.) The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus) |
Blue book () A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers. |
Blue book () The United States official "Biennial Register." |
Blue-eye (n.) The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia. |
Blue-eyed (a.) Having blue eyes. |
Blue-eyed grass () a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color. |
Blue grass () A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils |
Blue jay () The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue. |
Blue-john (n.) A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes. |
Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks. |
Damsel (n.) A young person, either male or female, of noble or gentle extraction |
Damsel (n.) A young unmarried woman |
Damsel (n.) An attachment to a millstone spindle for shaking the hopper. |
Gold (n.) Alt. of Goolde |
Gold (v. t.) A metallic element, constituting the most precious metal used as a common commercial medium of exchange. It has a characteristic yellow color, is one of the heaviest substances known (specific gravity 19.32), is soft, and very malleable and ductile. It is quite unalterable by heat, moisture, and most corrosive agents, and therefore well suited for its use in coin and jewelry. Symbol Au (Aurum). Atomic weight 196.7. |
Gold (v. t.) Money |
Gold (v. t.) A yellow color, like that of the metal |
Gold (v. t.) Figuratively, something precious or pure |
Gold-beaten (a.) Gilded. |
Gold-beating (n.) The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer. |
Gold-bound (a.) Encompassed with gold. |
Gold-hammer (n.) The yellow-hammer. |
Mannheim gold () A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc. |
Sanders-blue (n.) See Saunders-blue. |
Saunders-blue (n.) A kind of color prepared from calcined lapis lazuli |
Sevres blue () A very light blue. |
Sky-blue (a.) Having the blue color of the sky |
Smalt-blue (a.) Deep blue, like smalt. |
True-blue (a.) Of inflexible honesty and fidelity |
True-blue (n.) A person of inflexible integrity or fidelity. |
Turnbull's blue () The double cyanide of ferrous and ferric iron, a dark blue amorphous substance having a coppery luster, used in dyeing, calico printing, etc. Cf. Prussian blue, under Prussian. |
blue wall of silence blue wall wall of silence | the secrecy of police officers who lie or look the other way to protect other police officers, the blue wall cracked when some officers refused to take part in the cover-up |
gold rush | a large migration of people to a newly discovered gold field |
cyanobacteria blue-green algae | predominantly photosynthetic prokaryotic organisms containing a blue pigment in addition to chlorophyll, occur singly or in colonies in diverse habitats, important as phytoplankton |
bonito shark blue pointed Isurus glaucus | common blue-grey shark of southwest Pacific, sport and food fish |
blue shark great blue shark Prionace glauca | slender cosmopolitan, pelagic shark, blue body shades to white belly, dangerous especially during maritime disasters |
blue jay jaybird Cyanocitta cristata | common jay of eastern North America, bright blue with grey breast |
blue mockingbird Melanotis caerulescens | mockingbird of Mexico |
blue tit tomtit Parus caeruleus | widely distributed European titmouse with bright cobalt blue wings and tail and crown of the head |
blue-headed vireo Vireo solitarius solitarius | common vireo of northeastern North America with bluish slaty-grey head |
Cooper's hawk blue darter Accipiter cooperii | bluish-grey North American hawk having a darting flight |
western fence lizard swift blue-belly Sceloporus occidentalis | common western lizard, seen on logs or rocks |
blue racer Coluber constrictor flaviventris | bluish-green blacksnake found from Ohio to Texas |
black and gold garden spider Argiope aurantia | a widely distributed North American garden spider |
blue peafowl Pavo cristatus | peafowl of India and Ceylon |
bluewing blue-winged teal Anas discors | American teal |
blue goose Chen caerulescens | North American wild goose having dark plumage in summer but white in winter |
bluepoint blue point | small edible oyster typically from the southern shore of Long Island |
blue crab Callinectes sapidus | bluish edible crab of Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of North America |
great blue heron Ardea herodius | large American heron having bluish-grey plumage |
little blue heron Egretta caerulea | small bluish-grey heron of the western hemisphere |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
Kerry blue terrier | an Irish breed of medium-sized terriers with a silky blue-grey coat |
blue fox | a variety of Arctic fox having a pale grey winter coat |
blue point Siamese | Siamese cat having a bluish creamolored body and dark grey points |
blue | any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae |
gold-tail moth Euproctis chrysorrhoea | white furry-bodied European moth with a yellow tail tuft |
nilgai nylghai nylghau blue bull Boselaphus tragocamelus | large Indian antelope, male is blue-grey with white markings, female is brownish with no horns |
blue catfish blue cat blue channel catfish blue channel cat | a large catfish of the Mississippi valley |
coho cohoe coho salmon blue jack silver salmon Oncorhynchus kisutch | small salmon of northern Pacific coasts and the Great Lakes |
blue pike blue pickerel blue pikeperch blue walleye Strizostedion vitreum glaucum | variety inhabiting the Great Lakes |
runner blue runner Caranx crysos | fish of western Atlantic: Cape Cod to Brazil |
blue marlin Makaira nigricans | largest marlin, may reach pounds, found worldwide in warm seas |
Acapulco gold Mexican green | a particularly potent variety of marijuana |
amobarbital sodium blue blue angel blue devil Amytal | the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate, used as a sedative and a hypnotic |
Big Blue BLU- | a reliable and deadly ,-pound fragmentation bomb that explodes just above ground with a large radius, the largest conventional bomb in existence, used in Afghanistan |
blue | blue clothing, she was wearing blue |
blue chip | a blue poker chip with the highest value |
braid gold braid braiding | trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains |
gold foil | foil made of gold |
gold leaf | a very thin form of gold foil |
gold medal | a trophy made of gold (or having the appearance of gold) that is usually awarded for winning first place in a competition |
goldmine gold mine | a mine where gold ore is found |
goldmine gold mine | a good source of something that is desired |
gold plate | a thin plating of gold on something |
gold plate | tableware that is plated with gold |
jean blue jean denim | (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear |
amber gold | a deep yellow color, an amber light illuminated the room, he admired the gold of her hair |
old gold | a dark yellow |
bluish green blue green teal | a blue-green color or pigment, they painted it a light shade of bluish green |
blue blueness | blue color or pigment, resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime, he had eyes of bright blue |