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. |
Right whale () The bowhead, Arctic, or Greenland whale (Balaena mysticetus), from whose mouth the best whalebone is obtained. |
Right whale () Any other whale that produces valuable whalebone, as the Atlantic, or Biscay, right whale (Balaena cisarctica), and the Pacific right whale (B. Sieboldii) |
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. |
Sperm whale () A very large toothed whale (Physeter macrocephalus), having a head of enormous size. The upper jaw is destitute of teeth. In the upper part of the head, above the skull, there is a large cavity, or case, filled with oil and spermaceti. This whale sometimes grows to the length of more than eighty feet. It is found in the warmer parts of all the oceans. Called also cachalot, and spermaceti whale. |
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. |
Whale (n.) Any aquatic mammal of the order Cetacea, especially any one of the large species, some of which become nearly one hundred feet long. Whales are hunted chiefly for their oil and baleen, or whalebone. |
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 |
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 |
whale shark Rhincodon typus | large spotted shark of warm surface waters worldwide, resembles a whale and feeds chiefly on plankton |
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 |
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 |
whale louse | amphipod crustacean parasitic on cetaceans |
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 |
whale | any of the larger cetacean mammals having a streamlined body and breathing through a blowhole on the head |
baleen whale whalebone whale | whale with plates of whalebone along the upper jaw for filtering plankton from the water |
right whale | large Arctic whalebone whale, allegedly the `right' whale to hunt because of its valuable whalebone and oil |
bowhead bowhead whale Greenland whale Balaena mysticetus | large-mouthed Arctic whale |
blue whale sulfur bottom Balaenoptera musculus | largest mammal ever known, bluish-grey migratory whalebone whale mostly of southern hemisphere |
finback finback whale fin whale common rorqual Balaenoptera physalus | large flat-headed whalebone whale having deep furrows along the throat, of Atlantic and Pacific |
sei whale Balaenoptera borealis | similar to but smaller than the finback whale |
lesser rorqual piked whale minke whale Balaenoptera acutorostrata | small finback of coastal waters of Atlantic and Pacific |
humpback humpback whale Megaptera novaeangliae | large whalebone whale with long flippers noted for arching or humping its back as it dives |
grey whale gray whale devilfish Eschrichtius gibbosus Eschrichtius robustus | medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific |
toothed whale | any of several whales having simple conical teeth and feeding on fish etc. |
sperm whale cachalot black whale Physeter catodon | large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil, also a source of ambergris |
pygmy sperm whale Kogia breviceps | small sperm whale of warm waters of both coasts of North America |
dwarf sperm whale Kogia simus | very small (to feet) sperm whale of central coasts of Atlantic and Pacific |
beaked whale | any of several whales inhabiting all oceans and having beaklike jaws with vestigial teeth in the upper jaw |
bottle-nosed whale bottlenose whale bottlenose Hyperoodon ampullatus | northern Atlantic beaked whale with a bulbous forehead |
killer whale killer orca grampus sea wolf Orcinus orca | predatory black-and-white toothed whale with large dorsal fin, common in cold seas |
pilot whale black whale common blackfish blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |
white whale beluga Delphinapterus leucas | small northern whale that is white when adult |
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 |
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 |
whale sucker whalesucker Remilegia australis | large blue Pacific remora that attaches to whales and dolphins |
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 |