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llow tinged with purple for table knives and shears; purple for swords and watch springs; blue for springs and saws; and very pale blue tinged with green, too soft for steel instruments.

c way when acted upon by those substances; thus, litmus paper is turned red by acids, and blue by alkalies, turmeric paper is turned brown by alkalies, etc. (b) (Law) An instrument admitted as a standard or comparison of handwriting in those jurisdictions in which comparison of hands is permitted as a mode of proving h…

e habit and structure, including the algæ, fungi, and lichens. The simpler forms, as many blue-green algæ, yeasts, etc., are unicellular and reproduce vegetatively or by means of asexual spores; in the higher forms the plant body is a thallus, which may be filamentous or may consist of plates of cells; it is commonly…

t. to, a photomechanical process employing printings in three colors, as red, yellow, and blue.

ring. Chaucer. Thumb band, a twist of anything as thick as the thumb. Mortimer. -- Thumb blue, indigo in the form of small balls or lumps, used by washerwomen to blue linen, and the like. -- Thumb latch, a door latch having a lever formed to be pressed by the thumb. -- Thumb mark. (a) The mark left by the impression…

s are made. It is usually twilled, and woven in stripes of different colors, as white and blue; -- called also ticken.

The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

Color; tinge; tincture; tint. [Archaic] "Blue of heaven's own tinct." Shak. All the devices blazoned on the shield, In their own tinct. Tennyson.

or by application to the surface; especially, to color slightly; to stain; as, to tinge a blue color with red; an infusion tinged with a yellow color by saffron. His [Sir Roger's] virtues, as well as imperfections, are tinged by a certain extravagance. Addison.

The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

A color considered with reference to other very similar colors; as, red and blue are different colors, but two shades of scarlet are different tints.

To form tissue of; to interweave. Covered with cloth of gold tissued upon blue. Bacon.

The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

A titmouse, esp. the blue titmouse. [Prov.eng.]

ourmaline (schorl) is the most common variety, but there are also other varieties, as the blue (indicolite), red (rubellite), also green, brown, and white. The red and green varieties when transparent are valued as jewels. [Written also turmaline .]

The national French banner, of three colors, blue, white, and red, adopted at the first revolution.

es, or Papilio, troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue spots on the rear wings.

terfly (Papilio troilus). It is black, with yellow marginal spots on the front wings, and blue on the rear.

ffect or product of the change; as, to turn a worm into a winged insect; to turn green to blue; to turn prose into verse; to turn a Whig to a Tory, or a Hindoo to a Christian; to turn good to evil, and the like. The Lord thy God will turn thy captivity, and have compassion upon thee. Deut. xxx. 3. And David said, O Lor…