Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Blue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Blue; blackish-blue; livid; also, bluish-gray; lead-colored: a color-name applied to various shades of blue.
- Livid; pale-blue: applied to a person's complexion, as affected by cold, terror, or contusion.
- noun In coal-mining, indurated argillaceous shale or clay, sometimes containing nodules of iron ore. The same term is also applied to beds of hard sandstone.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of bluish-black or grey-blue
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.
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Snell, blae, nirly, and scowthering, are four of these significant vocables; they are all words that carry a shiver with them; and for my part, as I see them aligned before me on the page,
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The great red face took a blae colour -- the tongue protruded from his mouth and the eyes stared wildly.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars
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His knuckle and collar-bones shone blae through the tight skin.
John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro
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But they lookit sae blae, and their hearts were sae wae,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various
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His hose they are blae, and his shoon like the slae,
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Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger?
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And yet the Lord hath sent me to you, and our faithful men about here, crying, Come away to the marriage: Come away, I will renew My contract with you; I will not give you a bill of divorcement, but I will give My Son to you; and your souls that are black and blae, I will make them beautiful.
The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation Various 1876
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Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger?
Kidnapped Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.
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