to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing process; -- of books, etc.
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selected or chosen for special qualifications; as, a blue-ribbon grand jury.
Having blue veins or blue streaks.
A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine. A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward. An American river herring (Clupea /stivalis), closely allied to the alewife.
The hero of a medi/val French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate.
A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell. A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).
The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are Vaccinium Pennsylvanicum and Vaccinium vacillans. Vaccinium corymbosum is the tall blueberry.
A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (Fuligula marila and Fuligula affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.
A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin.
A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.
The bluepoll. The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.
One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.
A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.
A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangid/, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.
One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.
Same as bluing.
a serviceman in the navy.
With a blue color.
The quality of being blue; a blue color.
A nickname for a Nova Scotian; also, a Nova Scotian ship (called also Blue"nos`er (/)); a Nova Scotian potato, etc.
A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.
a type of folk song that originated among Black Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a melancholoy sound from repeated used of blue notes.
tall grass with smooth bluish leaf sheaths grown for hay in Western U.S.
A literary lady; a female pedant.
The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
Blue vitriol.
A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia c/rulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.
a coarse prickly European weed (Echium vulgare) with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in the U. S.
The blue-winged teal. See Teal.
A bushman's blanket; -- named from its color.
To act as in the game of bluff.
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
Built with the stem nearly straight up and down.
One who bluffs.
The quality or state of being bluff.
Having bluffs, or bold, steep banks.
The act of rendering blue; as, the bluing of steel.
Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.
Confusion; disturbance.
A short gun or firearm, with a large bore, capable of holding a number of balls, and intended to do execution without exact aim.
One who is apt to blunder.
A stupid, blundering fellow.
Characterized by blunders.
In a blundering manner.
To amalgamate and blend; to beat up or mix in water, as clay.
A wooden blade with a cross handle, used for mi/ing the clay in potteries; a plunger.
The process of mixing clay in potteries with a blunger.
A fencer's foil.
Dull; stupid.
made dull or blunt.
Somewhat blunt.
In a blunt manner; coarsely; plainly; abruptly; without delicacy, or the usual forms of civility.
Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; lack of sharpness.
That which obscures without effacing; a stain; a blot, as upon paper or other substance.
out of focus; not sharply defined.
Full of blurs; blurred.
To utter suddenly and unadvisedly; to divulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out.
A suffusion of the cheeks or face with red, as from a sense of shame, confusion, or modesty.
rose-colored.
One that blushes.
A modest girl.
Full of blushes.
The act of turning red; the appearance of a reddish color or flush upon the cheeks.
In a blushing manner; with a blush or blushes; as, to answer or confess blushingly.
Free from blushes; incapable of blushing; shameless; impudent.
Like a blush; having the color of a blush; rosy.
Fitful noise and violence, as of a storm; violent winds; boisterousness.
One who, or that which, blusters; a noisy swaggerer.
Exhibiting noisy violence, as the wind; stormy; tumultuous.
In a blustering manner.
Inclined to bluster; given to blustering; blustering.
Blusterous.
an abbreviation for bowel movement; -- used as an informal euphemism, especially in hospitals.
any automobile manufactured by the German firm BMW AG (from the German Bayerische MotorWerke); -- sometimes referred to colloquially as a beemer.
An exclamation used to startle or frighten.
a petty officer on a merchant ship who controls the work of other seamen.
A genus of large American serpents, including the boa constrictor, the emperor boa of Mexico (Boa imperator), and the chevalier boa of Peru (Boa eques).
The uncastrated male of swine; specifically, the wild hog.
To approach; to accost; to address; hence, to woo.
That can be boarded, as a ship.
One who has food statedly at another's table, or meals and lodgings in his house, for pay, or compensation of any kind.
The act of entering a ship, whether with a hostile or a friendly purpose.
a private house that provides accommodations and meals for paying guests.
a room where a committee meets (such as the board of directors of a company).
the boarding that surrounds an ice hockey rink.
a walkway made of wooden boards; usually at a seaside. The more elaborate boardwalks at shore resorts are lined with many commercial retail establishments, on the side of the walk opposite the ocean.
A Mediterranean fish (Capros aper), of the family Caproid/; -- so called from the resemblance of the extended lips to a hog's snout. An Australian percoid fish (Histiopterus recurvirostris), valued as a food fish.
Swinish; brutal; cruel.
Act of boasting; vaunting or bragging.
Boasting.
A stone mason's broad-faced chisel.
Given to, or full of, boasting; inclined to boast; vaunting; vainglorious; self-praising.
The act of glorying or vaunting; vainglorious speaking; ostentatious display.
Boastfully; with boasting.
Presumptuous.
Without boasting or ostentation.
To go or row in a boat.
See Cymbiform.
A large grackle or blackbird (Quiscalus major), found in the Southern United States.
Such as can be transported in a boat.
Conveyance by boat; also, a charge for such conveyance.
A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.
The quantity or amount that fills a boat.
A house for sheltering boats.
The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats.
A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation.
A man who manages a boat; a rower of a boat.
The art of managing a boat.
A boatman.
An officer who has charge of the boats, sails, rigging, colors, anchors, cables, cordage, etc., of a ship, and who also summons the crew, and performs other duties.
A woman who manages a boat.
To have a short, jerking motion; to play to and fro, or up and down; to play loosely against anything.
A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
The Poland marmot (Arctomys bobac).
A boasting.
One who, or that which, bobs.
A squabble; a tumult; a commotion; a noisy disturbance; as, to raise a bobbery.
A small pin, or cylinder, formerly of bone, now most commonly of wood, used in the making of pillow lace. Each thread is wound on a separate bobbin which hangs down holding the thread at a slight tension.
A kind of cotton lace which is wrought by machines, and not by hand.
Work woven with bobbins.
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