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A blue coloring matter supposed by some to be one of the component parts ofchlorophyll.

Rendered blue, as the surface of the body, from cyanosis or deficient a

Native sulphate of copper. Cf. Blue vitriol, under Blue.

A small oval plum of a blue color, the fruit of a variety of the Prunus domestica; -- called also damask plum.

A dark blue, edible berry with a white bloom, and its shrub (Gaylussacia frondosa) closely allied to the common huckleberry. The bush is also called blue tangle, and is found from New England to Kentucky, and southward.

rough; to dart repeatedly: -- frequentative of dart. My star that dartles the red and the blue. R. Browning.

plants (Funkia) differing from the last in having ovate veiny leaves, and large white or blue flowers.

Strongly colored; dark; intense; not light or thin; as, deep blue or crimson.

A shrub of the blueberry group (Vaccinium stamineum); also, its bitter, greenish white berry; -- called also squaw huckleberry.

Light, or softly tinted; -- said of a color; as; as, a delicate blue.

A machine for tearing or cutting rags, cotton, etc. Blue devils. See under Blue. -- Cartesian devil. See under Cartesian. -- Devil bird (Zoöl.), one of two or more South African drongo shrikes (Edolius retifer, and E. remifer), believed by the natives to be connected with sorcery. -- Devil may care, reckless, defian…

y not; but we must do on the armor of God. Latimer. Then Jason rose and did on him a fair Blue woolen tunic. W. Morris (Jason). Though the former legal pollution be now done off, yet there is a spiritual contagion in idolatry as much to be shunned. Milton. It ["Pilgrim's Progress"] has been done into verse: it has been…

The Arctic or blue fox; -- a name also applied to species of the genus Cynalopex.

A species of sunfish (Lepomis pallidus), common in the United States; -- called also blue sunfish, and copper-nosed bream.

A livid or black and blue spot, produced by the extravasation or effusion of blood into the areolar tissue from a contusion.

ish of the Gulf of Mexico (Gobionellus oceanicus), remarkable for the brilliant green and blue color of the base of the tongue; -- whence the name; -- called also esmeralda. -- Emerald green, a very durable pigment, of a vivid light green color, made from the arseniate of copper; green bice; Scheele's green; -- also u…

A green compound used as a dyestuff, produced from aniline blue when acted upon by acid.

btained from the Æsculus hippocastanum, or horse- chestnut, and characterized by its fine blue fluorescent solutions. [Written also æsculin.]

The blue buck.

H4N2O8 by heating an ammonium salt of mellitic acid. By reduction it is changed to a dark blue substance (euchrone), -- hence its name.