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. |
Goby (n.) One of several species of small marine fishes of the genus Gobius and allied genera. |
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. |
Torpedo (n.) Any one of numerous species of elasmobranch fishes belonging to Torpedo and allied genera. They are related to the rays, but have the power of giving electrical shocks. Called also crampfish, and numbfish. See Electrical fish, under Electrical. |
Torpedo (n.) An engine or machine for destroying ships by blowing them up. |
Torpedo (n.) A quantity of explosives anchored in a channel, beneath the water, or set adrift in a current, and so arranged that they will be exploded when touched by a vessel, or when an electric circuit is closed by an operator on shore. |
Torpedo (n.) A kind of small submarine boat carrying an explosive charge, and projected from a ship against another ship at a distance, or made self-propelling, and otherwise automatic in its action against a distant ship. |
Torpedo (n.) A kind of shell or cartridge buried in earth, to be exploded by electricity or by stepping on it. |
Torpedo (n.) A kind of detonating cartridge or shell placed on a rail, and exploded when crushed under the locomotive wheels, -- used as an alarm signal. |
Torpedo (n.) An explosive cartridge or shell lowered or dropped into a bored oil well, and there exploded, to clear the well of obstructions or to open communication with a source of supply of oil. |
Torpedo (n.) A kind of firework in the form of a small ball, or pellet, which explodes when thrown upon a hard object. |
Torpedo (v. t.) to destroy by, or subject to the action of, a torpedo. |
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 |
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 |
electric ray crampfish numbfish torpedo | any sluggish bottom-dwelling ray of the order Torpediniformes having a rounded body and electric organs on each side of the head capable of emitting strong electric discharges |
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 |
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 |
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 |
goby gudgeon | small spiny-finned fish of coastal or brackish waters having a large head and elongated tapering body having the ventral fins modified as a sucker |
sleeper sleeper goby | tropical fish that resembles a goby and rests quietly on the bottom in shallow water |
blue marlin Makaira nigricans | largest marlin, may reach pounds, found worldwide in warm seas |
aerial torpedo | a torpedo designed to be launched from an airplane |
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 |
bangalore torpedo | a metal pipe filled with explosive, used to detonate land mines or to clear a path through barbed wire |
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 |
homing torpedo | a torpedo that is guided to its target (as by the sound of a ship's engines) |
jean blue jean denim | (usually plural) close-fitting trousers of heavy denim for manual work or casual wear |
PT boat mosquito boat mosquito craft motor torpedo boat | a small fast unarmored and lightly armed torpedo boat, P(atrol) T(orpedo) boat |
submarine torpedo | a torpedo designed to be launched from a submarine |
torpedo | armament consisting of a long cylindrical self-propelled underwater projectile that detonates on contact with a target |
torpedo | a small explosive device that is placed on a railroad track and fires when a train runs over it, the sound of the explosion warns the engineer of danger ahead |
torpedo | a small firework that consists of a percussion cap and some gravel wrapped in paper, explodes when thrown forcefully against a hard surface |
torpedo | an explosive device that is set off in an oil well (or a gas well) to start or to increase the flow of oil (or gas) |
torpedo boat | small high-speed warship designed for torpedo attacks in coastal waters |
torpedo-boat destroyer | small destroyer that was the forerunner of modern destroyers, designed to destroy torpedo boats |
torpedo tube | a tube near the waterline of a vessel through which a torpedo is fired |
bluish green blue green teal | a blue-green color or pigment, they painted it a light shade of bluish green |