BLUE

I. adjective (~r; ~st) Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French blef, blew, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German blāo ~; akin to Latin flavus yellow Date: 13th century of the color ~, 2. bluish , discolored by or as if by bruising , bluish gray , 3. low in spirits ; melancholy , marked by low spirits ; depressing , wearing ~, learned , intellectual , puritanical , 7. profane , indecent , off-color , risque , of, relating to, or used in ~s , ~ly adverb ~ness noun II. noun Date: 13th century a color whose hue is that of the clear sky or that of the portion of the color spectrum lying between green and violet, 2. a pigment or dye that colors ~, bluing , 3. ~ clothing or cloth, a ~ costume or uniform, 4. a Union soldier in the American Civil War, the Union army, 5. a. sky , the far distance , sea , a ~ object, ~stocking , any of numerous small chiefly ~ butterflies (family Lycaenidae), ~fish , ~ cheese , III. verb (~d; ~ing or bluing) Date: 1606 transitive verb to make ~, intransitive verb to turn ~