Blue /(blū)/

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.
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.
3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]
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.
6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking. [Colloq.]

   The ladies were very blue and well informed.

   For his religion . . . 'T was Presbyterian, true blue.

1. 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. poetically
2. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. [Colloq.]
3. Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy. [Colloq.]

imp. & p. p. Blued; p. pr. & vb. n. Bluing

1. To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.