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bluer 音标拼音: [bl'uɚ] 蓝的,忧郁的,青色,蓝色(比较级) 蓝的,忧郁的,青色,蓝色(比较级) Blue \ Blue\ ( bl[= u]), a. [ Compar. { Bluer} ( bl[= u]"[~ e] r); superl. { Bluest}.] [ OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, livid, black, fr. Icel. bl[= a] r livid; akin to Dan. blaa blue, Sw. bl[* a], D. blauw, OHG. bl[= a] o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. bl[= a] o.] 1. 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. " The blue firmament." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] 5. 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. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of { bluestocking}. [ Colloq.] [ 1913 Webster] The ladies were very blue and well informed. -- Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster] { Blue asbestus}. See { Crocidolite}. { Blue black}, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black. { Blue blood}. See under { Blood}. { Blue buck} ( Zool.), a small South African antelope ({ Cephalophus pygm[ ae] us}); also applied to a larger species ({[ AE] goceras leucoph[ ae] us}); the blaubok. { Blue cod} ( Zool.), the buffalo cod. { Blue crab} ( Zool.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States ({ Callinectes hastatus}). { Blue curls} ( Bot.), a common plant ({ Trichostema dichotomum}), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also { bastard pennyroyal}. { Blue devils}, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons suffering with { delirium tremens}; hence, very low spirits. " Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" -- Thackeray. { Blue gage}. See under { Gage}, a plum. { Blue gum}, an Australian myrtaceous tree ({ Eucalyptus globulus}), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See { Eucalyptus}. { Blue jack}, { Blue stone}, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. { Blue jacket}, a man- of war' s man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform. { Blue jaundice}. See under { Jaundice}. { Blue laws}, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [ U. S.] { Blue light}, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations. { Blue mantle} ( Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes. { Blue mass}, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. -- McElrath. { Blue mold} or { Blue mould}, the blue fungus ({ Aspergillus glaucus}) which grows on cheese. -- Brande & C. { Blue Monday}, ( a) a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation ( as the Monday before Lent). ( b) a Monday considered as depressing because it is a workday in contrast to the relaxation of the weekend. { Blue ointment} ( Med.), mercurial ointment. { Blue Peter} ( British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags. { Blue pill}. ( Med.) ( a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. ( b) Blue mass. { Blue ribbon}. ( a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; -- hence, a member of that order. ( b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambition; a distinction; a prize. " These [ scholarships] were the -- blue ribbon of the college." -- Farrar. ( c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the -- Blue ribbon Army. { Blue ruin}, utter ruin; also, gin. [ Eng. Slang] -- Carlyle. { Blue spar} ( Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See { Lazulite}. { Blue thrush} ( Zool.), a European and Asiatic thrush ({ Petrocossyphus cyaneas}). { Blue verditer}. See { Verditer}. { Blue vitriol} ( Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc. { Blue water}, the open ocean. { Big Blue}, the International Business Machines corporation. [ Wall Street slang.] PJC { To look blue}, to look disheartened or dejected. { True blue}, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters. [ 1913 Webster] For his religion . . . ' T was Presbyterian, true blue. -- Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster]
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