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vity containing and enveloping anything. The center spike of gold Which burns deep in the bluebell's womb. R. Browning.

ored South American humming birds belonging to the genus Thalurania. The males are bright blue, or green and blue. -- Wood offering, wood burnt on the altar. We cast the lots . . . for the wood offering. Neh. x. 34. -- Wood oil (Bot.), a resinous oil obtained from several East Indian trees of the genus Dipterocarpus,…

A European squill (Scilla nonscripta) having a scape bearing a raceme of drooping blue, purple, white, or sometimes pink, bell- shaped flowers.

nd Larvivora. They are closely allied to the European robin. The males are usually bright blue above, and more or less red or rufous beneath.

hite powder; -- so called because it forms yellow salts, and because its solution forms a blue fluorescence like quinine.

A green or blue pigment produced by Peziza in certain kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as an amorphous powder resembling indigo.

The blue titmouse. [Prov. Eng.]

A mineral of a violet-blue color, inclining to gray and white. It is a hydrous fluoride of cerium, yttrium, and calcium.

obalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting, and in enameling pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc. [Written…

Of or pertaining to the zenith. "The deep zenithal blue." Tyndall.