"""blue Book " :: Blue book () The United States official Biennial Register..

Abluent :: Abluent (a.) Washing away; carrying off impurities; detergent.

Abluent :: Abluent (n.) A detergent.

Blue :: Blue (superl.) 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..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) 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..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) 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..

Blue :: Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.

Blue :: Blue (n.) One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky..

Blue :: Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.

Blue :: Blue (pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.

Blue :: Blue (v. t.) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc..

Blue Bonnet :: Blue bonnet (n.) Alt. of Blue-bonne.

Blue Book :: Blue book () A parliamentary publication, so called from its blue paper covers..

Blue Grass :: Blue grass () A species of grass (Poa compressa) with bluish green stems, valuable in thin gravelly soils; wire grass..

Blue Jay :: Blue jay () The common jay of the United States (Cyanocitta, or Cyanura, cristata). The predominant color is bright blue..

Blue-bonnet :: Blue-bonnet (n.) A broad, flat Scottish cap of blue woolen, or one wearing such cap; a Scotchman..

Blue-bonnet :: Blue-bonnet (n.) A plant. Same as Bluebottle.

Blue-bonnet :: Blue-bonnet (n.) The European blue titmouse (Parus coeruleus); the bluecap.

Blue-eye :: Blue-eye (n.) The blue-cheeked honeysucker of Australia.

Blue-eyed :: Blue-eyed (a.) Having blue eyes.

Blue-eyed Grass :: Blue-eyed grass () a grasslike plant (Sisyrinchium anceps), with small flowers of a delicate blue color..

Blue-john :: Blue-john (n.) A name given to fluor spar in Derbyshire, where it is used for ornamental purposes..

Blue-veined :: Blue-veined (a.) Having blue veins or blue streaks.

Blueback :: Blueback (n.) A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.

Blueback :: Blueback (n.) A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.

Blueback :: Blueback (n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife..

Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..

Bluebell :: Bluebell (n.) A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell..

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