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blue

[bloo]

noun, adjective, blu⋅er, blu⋅est, verb, blued, blu⋅ing or blue⋅ing.

–noun

1.	the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.

bluing.

3.	something having a blue color: Place the blue next to the red.

4.	a person who wears blue or is a member of a group characterized by some blue symbol: Tomorrow the blues will play the browns.

5.	(often initial capital letter) a member of the Union army in the American Civil War or the army itself. Compare gray (def. 13).

6.	bluestocking.

7.	blue ribbon (def. 1).

8.	any of several blue-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.

9.	Printing. blueline.

10.

the blue,

the sky.

the sea.

c.	the remote distance: They've vanished into the blue somewhere.

–adjective

11.	of the color of blue: a blue tie.

12.	(initial capital letter) of or pertaining to the Union army in the American Civil War.

13.	(of the skin) discolored by cold, contusion, fear, or vascular collapse.

14.	depressed in spirits; dejected; melancholy: She felt blue about not being chosen for the team.

15.	holding or offering little hope; dismal; bleak: a blue outlook.

16.	characterized by or stemming from rigid morals or religion: statutes that were blue and unrealistic.

17.	marked by blasphemy: The air was blue with oaths.

18.	(of an animal's pelage) grayish-blue.

19.	indecent; somewhat obscene; risqué: a blue joke or film.

–verb (used with object)

20.	to make blue; dye a blue color.

21.	to tinge with bluing: Don't blue your clothes till the second rinse.

–verb (used without object)

22.	to become or turn blue.

—Idioms

23.	blue in the face, exhausted and speechless, as from excessive anger, physical strain, etc.: I reminded him about it till I was blue in the face.

24.	out of the blue, suddenly and unexpectedly: The inheritance came out of the blue as a stroke of good fortune.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME blewe < AF blew, bl(i)u, bl(i)ef blue, livid, discolored, OF blo, blau (F bleu) < Gmc *blǣwaz; cf. OE blǣwen, contr. of blǣhǣwen deep blue, perse (see blae, hue ), OFris blāw, MD blā(u), OHG blāo (G blau), ON blār

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Language Translation for : blue

Spanish:

azul,

German:

blau,

Japanese:

青い

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blue (blōō) Pronunciation Key
n.

The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between green and indigo, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 490 nanometers; any of a group of colors that may vary in lightness and saturation, whose hue is that of a clear daytime sky; one of the additive or light primaries; one of the psychological primary hues.
1. A pigment or dye imparting this hue.
2. Bluing.
3. An object having this hue.
4. Dress or clothing of this hue: The ushers wore blue.
5. A person who wears a blue uniform.
6. blues A dress blue uniform, especially that of the U.S. Army.
7. A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.
8. The Union Army.
9. The sky.
10. The sea.
1. An object having this hue.
2. Dress or clothing of this hue: The ushers wore blue.
3. A person who wears a blue uniform.
4. blues A dress blue uniform, especially that of the U.S. Army.
5. A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.
6. The Union Army.
7. The sky.
8. The sea.
1. A person who wears a blue uniform.
2. blues A dress blue uniform, especially that of the U.S. Army.
3. A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.
4. The Union Army.
5. The sky.
6. The sea.
often Blue
1. A member of the Union Army in the Civil War.
2. The Union Army.
3. The sky.
4. The sea.
A bluefish.
A small blue butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
1. The sky.
2. The sea.

adj. blu·er, blu·est

Of the color blue.
Bluish or having parts that are blue or bluish, as the blue spruce and the blue whale.
Having a gray or purplish color, as from cold or contusion.
Wearing blue.
1. Gloomy; depressed. See Synonyms at depressed.
2. Dismal; dreary: a blue day.
Puritanical; strict.
Aristocratic; patrician.
Indecent; risqué: a blue joke; a blue movie.

tr. & intr.v. blued, blu·ing, blues
To make or become blue.

[Middle English blue, bleu, from Old French bleu, of Germanic origin; see bhel-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

blue'ly adv., blue'ness n.

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blue

c.1300, bleu, blwe, etc., from O.Fr. bleu, from Frank. blao, from P.Gmc. *blæwaz, from PIE base *bhle-was "light-colored, blue, blond, yellow." "The exact color to which the Gmc. term applies varies in the older dialects; M.H.G. bla is also "yellow," whereas the Scandinavian words may refer esp. to a deep, swarthy black, e.g. O.N. blamaðr, N.Icel. blamaður 'Negro' " [Buck]. Replaced O.E. blaw, from the same PIE root, which also yielded L. flavus "yellow," O.Sp. blavo "yellowish-gray," Gk. phalos "white," Welsh blawr "gray," O.N. bla "livid" (the meaning in black and blue), showing the usual slippery definition of color words in I.E. The present spelling is since 16c., from Fr. influence. The color of constancy since Chaucer at least, but apparently for no deeper reason than the rhyme in true blue (1500). Blue (adj.) "lewd" is recorded from 1840; the sense connection is unclear, and is opposite to that in blue laws (q.v.). Blueprint is from 1886; the fig. sense of "detailed plan" is first attested 1926. For blue ribbon, see cordon bleu under cordon. Blue moon emblematic of "very rarely" suggests something that, in fact, never happens (cf. at the Greek calends), as in this couplet from 1528:

Yf they say the mone is blewe,
We must beleve that it is true.

Many IE languages seem to have had a word to describe the color of the sea, encompasing blue and green and gray; e.g. Ir. glass (see Chloe), O.E. hæwen "blue, gray," related to har (see hoar), Serbo-Cr. sinji "gray-blue, sea-green," Lith. šyvas, Rus. sivyj "gray."

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blue
adjective
1.	of the color intermediate between green and violet; having a color similar to that of a clear unclouded sky; "October's bright blue weather"- Helen Hunt Jackson; "a blue flame"; "blue haze of tobacco smoke"
2.	used to signify the Union forces in the American Civil War (who wore blue uniforms); "a ragged blue line"
3.	filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
4.	characterized by profanity or cursing; "foul-mouthed and blasphemous"; "blue language"; "profane words" [syn: blasphemous]
5.	suggestive of sexual impropriety; "a blue movie"; "blue jokes"; "he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details"; "a juicy scandal"; "a naughty wink"; "naughty words"; "racy anecdotes"; "a risque story"; "spicy gossip"
6.	belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes" [syn: aristocratic]
7.	morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior"
8.	causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
noun
1.	blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime; "he had eyes of bright blue"
2.	blue clothing; "she was wearing blue"
3.	any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"
4.	the sky as viewed during daylight; "he shot an arrow into the blue" [syn: blue sky]
5.	used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge [syn: bluing]
6.	the sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic [syn: amobarbital sodium]
7.	any of numerous small butterflies of the family Lycaenidae
verb
1.	turn blue

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blue

In addition to the idioms beginning with blue, also see between a rock and a hard place (devil and deep blue sea); black and blue; bolt from the blue; have the blues; into thin air (the blue); like greased lightning (a blue streak); once in a blue moon; out of a clear blue sky; talk one's arm off (a blue streak; until blue in the face).

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Blue
A language proposed by Softech to meet the DoD Ironman requirements which led to Ada. ["On the BLUE Language Submitted to the DoD", E.W. Dijkstra, SIGPLAN Notices 13(10):10-15 (Oct 1978)].

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Blue Mounds, WI (town, FIPS 02508500)
Location: (42.996502, -89.779946)
Population (2000): 842 (300 housing units)
Area: 33.023334 sq mi (land), 0.008380 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 53517

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Location: (38.093626, -95.012383)
Population (2000): 500 (250 housing units)
Area: 62.724174 sq mi (land), 0.057578 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 66010

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Location: (41.549021, -90.742827)
Population (2000): 3,592 (1,525 housing units)
Area: 32.632162 sq mi (land), 0.275066 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 52726

Blue Rock, OH (township, FIPS 11907398)
Location: (39.813139, -81.850835)
Population (2000): 641 (330 housing units)
Area: 27.015523 sq mi (land), 0.279348 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 43720

Blue Mound, IL (township, FIPS 11506769)
Location: (39.767377, -89.074336)
Population (2000): 917 (368 housing units)
Area: 32.591818 sq mi (land), 0.043793 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 62513

Blue Mound, IL (township, FIPS 11306743)
Location: (40.547965, -88.739443)
Population (2000): 473 (210 housing units)
Area: 37.649854 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 62513

Blue Ridge, GA (CCD, FIPS 11190306)
Location: (34.865186, -84.326015)
Population (2000): 5,399 (2,858 housing units)
Area: 43.160167 sq mi (land), 2.131220 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 30513

Blue Mountain, AR (township, FIPS 13790366)
Location: (35.865198, -92.111175)
Population (2000): 3,573 (1,778 housing units)
Area: 29.568587 sq mi (land), 0.018004 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 72826

Blue Mountain, AR (township, FIPS 08390363)
Location: (35.129218, -93.718462)
Population (2000): 192 (95 housing units)
Area: 13.429818 sq mi (land), 0.566440 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 72826

Blue Earth, MN (County, FIPS 013)
Location: (44.088378, -94.037045)
Population (2000): 55,941 (21,971 housing units)
Area: 752.357940 sq mi (land), 13.539630 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 56013

Blue River, WI (village, FIPS 08525)
Location: (43.186952, -90.570131)
Population (2000): 429 (205 housing units)
Area: 0.742533 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 53518

Blue Mounds, WI (village, FIPS 08475)
Location: (43.016840, -89.830733)
Population (2000): 708 (297 housing units)
Area: 0.754487 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 53517

Blue Ridge, VA (CDP, FIPS 08200)
Location: (37.371928, -79.816458)
Population (2000): 3,188 (1,219 housing units)
Area: 6.323534 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 24064

Blue Rapids, KS (township, FIPS 11707675)
Location: (39.621527, -96.624488)
Population (2000): 78 (35 housing units)
Area: 35.830466 sq mi (land), 0.082512 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 66411

Blue Hill, ME (town, FIPS 00905700)
Location: (44.412314, -68.573624)
Population (2000): 2,390 (1,486 housing units)
Area: 62.533473 sq mi (land), 24.132194 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 04614

Blue Mounds, WI (village, FIPS 02508475)
Location: (43.016840, -89.830733)
Population (2000): 708 (297 housing units)
Area: 0.754487 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 53517

Blue Ridge, VA (district, FIPS 14190408)
Location: (36.694536, -80.360903)
Population (2000): 3,583 (1,954 housing units)
Area: 91.898506 sq mi (land), 0.248254 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 24064

Blue Ridge, VA (district, FIPS 10790400)
Location: (39.134652, -77.722573)
Population (2000): 15,367 (5,612 housing units)
Area: 120.477979 sq mi (land), 0.426921 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 24064

Blue Grass, VA (district, FIPS 09190368)
Location: (38.421865, -79.666484)
Population (2000): 624 (449 housing units)
Area: 134.815335 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 24413

Blue Ridge, VA (district, FIPS 06790392)
Location: (36.890092, -80.046758)
Population (2000): 5,591 (2,515 housing units)
Area: 121.745342 sq mi (land), 1.639011 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 24064

Blue Ridge, VA (district, FIPS 02390384)
Location: (37.366552, -79.827250)
Population (2000): 5,505 (2,126 housing units)
Area: 13.081804 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 24064

Blue Ridge, VA (district, FIPS 01990376)
Location: (37.318587, -79.741706)
Population (2000): 14,407 (6,152 housing units)
Area: 136.445077 sq mi (land), 1.543232 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 24064

Blue Ridge, TX (CCD, FIPS 08590350)
Location: (33.323424, -96.410114)
Population (2000): 5,250 (2,054 housing units)
Area: 123.261870 sq mi (land), 0.419117 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 75424

Blue Creek, OH (township, FIPS 12507370)
Location: (41.021630, -84.620072)
Population (2000): 804 (297 housing units)
Area: 36.202857 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 45616

Blue Hill, NE (precinct, FIPS 18190290)
Location: (40.284780, -98.415492)
Population (2000): 922 (363 housing units)
Area: 103.837519 sq mi (land), 0.029960 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 68930

Blue River, WI (village, FIPS 04308525)
Location: (43.186952, -90.570131)
Population (2000): 429 (205 housing units)
Area: 0.742533 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 53518

Blue Earth, MN (city, FIPS 04306688)
Location: (43.640152, -94.098623)
Population (2000): 3,621 (1,666 housing units)
Area: 3.184683 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 56013

Blue Ridge, TX (city, FIPS 08872)
Location: (33.299206, -96.401616)
Population (2000): 672 (259 housing units)
Area: 0.659320 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 75424

Blue Hill, NE (city, FIPS 05560)
Location: (40.331008, -98.449967)
Population (2000): 867 (392 housing units)
Area: 0.735778 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 68930

Blue Mound, IL (village, FIPS 06756)
Location: (39.699677, -89.122075)
Population (2000): 1,129 (483 housing units)
Area: 0.594557 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 62513

Blue Grass, IA (city, FIPS 07075)
Location: (41.511915, -90.764984)
Population (2000): 1,169 (459 housing units)
Area: 2.693635 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 52726

Blue Island, IL (city, FIPS 06704)
Location: (41.658412, -87.679424)
Population (2000): 23,463 (8,750 housing units)
Area: 4.029781 sq mi (land), 0.094826 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 60406

Blue Eye, MO (town, FIPS 06526)
Location: (36.499925, -93.396598)
Population (2000): 129 (57 housing units)
Area: 0.536369 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 65611

Blue Springs, MO (city, FIPS 06652)
Location: (39.017794, -94.274421)
Population (2000): 48,080 (17,733 housing units)
Area: 18.193631 sq mi (land), 0.027440 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 64014

Blue Springs, NE (city, FIPS 05630)
Location: (40.137856, -96.662887)
Population (2000): 383 (181 housing units)
Area: 0.788733 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 68318

Blue Ridge, GA (city, FIPS 08928)
Location: (34.868344, -84.320991)
Population (2000): 1,210 (631 housing units)
Area: 2.171557 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 30513

Blue Rapids, KS (city, FIPS 07650)
Location: (39.681852, -96.659227)
Population (2000): 1,088 (494 housing units)
Area: 2.056207 sq mi (land), 0.022316 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 66411

Blue Lake, CA (city, FIPS 07162)
Location: (40.880566, -123.989028)
Population (2000): 1,135 (556 housing units)
Area: 0.602365 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 95525

Blue Mountain, AR (town, FIPS 07210)
Location: (35.130839, -93.712182)
Population (2000): 132 (67 housing units)
Area: 1.079578 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 72826

Blue Mountain, MS (town, FIPS 07060)
Location: (34.670671, -89.028678)
Population (2000): 670 (268 housing units)
Area: 1.153617 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 38610

Blue Point, NY (CDP, FIPS 07069)
Location: (40.750374, -73.034580)
Population (2000): 4,407 (1,664 housing units)
Area: 1.780935 sq mi (land), 0.006272 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 11715

Blue Earth, MN (city, FIPS 06688)
Location: (43.640152, -94.098623)
Population (2000): 3,621 (1,666 housing units)
Area: 3.184683 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 56013

Blue Mound, KS (city, FIPS 07600)
Location: (38.090283, -95.008409)
Population (2000): 277 (136 housing units)
Area: 0.633859 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 66010

Blue Diamond, NV (CDP, FIPS 05700)
Location: (36.047090, -115.403166)
Population (2000): 282 (125 housing units)
Area: 7.357400 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 89004

Blue Springs, MS (village, FIPS 07100)
Location: (34.402978, -88.872890)
Population (2000): 144 (56 housing units)
Area: 1.029751 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)
Zip code(s): 38828

Blue Springs, NC (township, FIPS 09390312)
Location: (34.940893, -79.303908)
Population (2000): 1,741 (593 housing units)
Area: 31.988534 sq mi (land), 0.038360 sq mi (water)

Blue Ridge, NC (township, FIPS 08990304)
Location: (35.332828, -82.383902)
Population (2000): 8,487 (4,016 housing units)
Area: 35.321298 sq mi (land), 0.008001 sq mi (water)

Blue Creek, NE (precinct, FIPS 06990285)
Location: (41.489664, -102.152347)
Population (2000): 663 (408 housing units)
Area: 564.461186 sq mi (land), 3.405750 sq mi (water)

Blue Mound, MO (township, FIPS 21706598)
Location: (37.982363, -94.227302)
Population (2000): 395 (174 housing units)
Area: 46.194070 sq mi (land), 0.227469 sq mi (water)

Blue Mound, MO (township, FIPS 11706580)
Location: (39.661205, -93.597628)
Population (2000): 427 (211 housing units)
Area: 42.275163 sq mi (land), 0.154083 sq mi (water)

Blue Ridge, NC (township, FIPS 18990308)
Location: (36.157494, -81.610233)
Population (2000): 3,628 (1,874 housing units)
Area: 27.622590 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue Butte, ND (township, FIPS 05308020)
Location: (47.890883, -102.951999)
Population (2000): 59 (36 housing units)
Area: 34.507099 sq mi (land), 1.176827 sq mi (water)

Blue Ridge, AL (CDP, FIPS 07588)
Location: (32.486744, -86.190823)
Population (2000): 1,331 (526 housing units)
Area: 7.861555 sq mi (land), 0.066793 sq mi (water)

Blue Springs, AL (town, FIPS 07672)
Location: (31.664330, -85.495919)
Population (2000): 121 (54 housing units)
Area: 2.894102 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue Eye, AR (town, FIPS 07150)
Location: (36.496180, -93.397780)
Population (2000): 36 (18 housing units)
Area: 0.068931 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue River, CO (town, FIPS 07410)
Location: (39.432532, -106.037152)
Population (2000): 685 (563 housing units)
Area: 2.181808 sq mi (land), 0.101360 sq mi (water)

Blue River, IN (township, FIPS 06506076)
Location: (39.994595, -85.252118)
Population (2000): 1,179 (453 housing units)
Area: 22.015584 sq mi (land), 0.015384 sq mi (water)

Blue Ash, OH (city, FIPS 06107300)
Location: (39.247109, -84.376038)
Population (2000): 12,513 (5,251 housing units)
Area: 7.655020 sq mi (land), 0.013636 sq mi (water)

Blue Ridge, ND (township, FIPS 10508100)
Location: (48.574951, -103.613431)
Population (2000): 32 (22 housing units)
Area: 33.955487 sq mi (land), 2.072431 sq mi (water)

Blue Hill, ND (township, FIPS 05508060)
Location: (47.797227, -101.694412)
Population (2000): 22 (16 housing units)
Area: 35.917431 sq mi (land), 0.079280 sq mi (water)

Blue Hill, MN (township, FIPS 14106742)
Location: (45.512887, -93.689268)
Population (2000): 762 (267 housing units)
Area: 35.733334 sq mi (land), 0.689275 sq mi (water)

Blue Mounds, MN (township, FIPS 12106760)
Location: (45.546313, -95.560554)
Population (2000): 207 (92 housing units)
Area: 34.857991 sq mi (land), 1.115648 sq mi (water)

Blue Hills, CT (CDP, FIPS 06050)
Location: (41.811406, -72.695418)
Population (2000): 3,020 (1,044 housing units)
Area: 1.142335 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue River, IN (township, FIPS 08106094)
Location: (39.366509, -85.986233)
Population (2000): 5,189 (2,089 housing units)
Area: 24.172797 sq mi (land), 0.146543 sq mi (water)

Blue River, IN (township, FIPS 06106058)
Location: (38.356457, -86.226406)
Population (2000): 1,923 (780 housing units)
Area: 38.648427 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue River, IN (township, FIPS 05906040)
Location: (39.735105, -85.677160)
Population (2000): 1,328 (476 housing units)
Area: 29.795314 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue Creek, IN (township, FIPS 00105914)
Location: (40.702002, -84.846839)
Population (2000): 1,195 (279 housing units)
Area: 24.260321 sq mi (land), 0.001127 sq mi (water)

Blue Ridge, IL (township, FIPS 14706808)
Location: (40.220989, -88.529681)
Population (2000): 1,414 (605 housing units)
Area: 63.940985 sq mi (land), 0.061542 sq mi (water)

Blue Mountain, AL (town, FIPS 07552)
Location: (33.688619, -85.837577)
Population (2000): 233 (125 housing units)
Area: 0.087252 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue Ridge, AR (township, FIPS 06190369)
Location: (34.169245, -94.019898)
Population (2000): 198 (93 housing units)
Area: 29.101005 sq mi (land), 0.768246 sq mi (water)

Blue Bayou, AR (township, FIPS 06190354)
Location: (33.889615, -94.015824)
Population (2000): 102 (49 housing units)
Area: 11.142686 sq mi (land), 0.025356 sq mi (water)

Blue Cane, AR (township, FIPS 05590360)
Location: (36.178940, -90.276548)
Population (2000): 70 (43 housing units)
Area: 18.318531 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue Cane, AR (township, FIPS 02190357)
Location: (36.226698, -90.202537)
Population (2000): 233 (107 housing units)
Area: 26.034292 sq mi (land), 0.037398 sq mi (water)

Blue Ash, OH (city, FIPS 07300)
Location: (39.247109, -84.376038)
Population (2000): 12,513 (5,251 housing units)
Area: 7.655020 sq mi (land), 0.013636 sq mi (water)

Blue Bell, PA (CDP, FIPS 07224)
Location: (40.144759, -75.268752)
Population (2000): 6,395 (2,503 housing units)
Area: 5.405562 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue Mound, TX (city, FIPS 08860)
Location: (32.855073, -97.337959)
Population (2000): 2,388 (790 housing units)
Area: 0.537140 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue Hill, KS (township, FIPS 12307575)
Location: (39.254750, -98.311914)
Population (2000): 36 (17 housing units)
Area: 36.003993 sq mi (land), 0.130901 sq mi (water)

Blue Lake, MI (township, FIPS 12109340)
Location: (43.432921, -86.219607)
Population (2000): 1,990 (814 housing units)
Area: 34.419372 sq mi (land), 1.289764 sq mi (water)

Blue Valley, KS (township, FIPS 14907725)
Location: (39.439494, -96.635032)
Population (2000): 339 (143 housing units)
Area: 44.476358 sq mi (land), 4.915489 sq mi (water)

Blue Lake, MI (township, FIPS 07909320)
Location: (44.819085, -84.900335)
Population (2000): 428 (738 housing units)
Area: 34.652995 sq mi (land), 1.578880 sq mi (water)

Blue Rapids City, KS (township, FIPS 11707700)
Location: (39.684972, -96.655287)
Population (2000): 1,201 (537 housing units)
Area: 35.596446 sq mi (land), 0.352278 sq mi (water)

Blue Berry Hill, TX (CDP, FIPS 08830)
Location: (28.389303, -97.781611)
Population (2000): 982 (370 housing units)
Area: 2.926439 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue Earth City, MN (township, FIPS 04306706)
Location: (43.634499, -94.073459)
Population (2000): 454 (173 housing units)
Area: 32.919417 sq mi (land), 0.017183 sq mi (water)

Blue Ridge Manor, KY (city, FIPS 07858)
Location: (38.243570, -85.565365)
Population (2000): 623 (316 housing units)
Area: 0.188864 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

Blue, KS (township, FIPS 14907550)
Location: (39.228850, -96.530335)
Population (2000): 1,802 (722 housing units)
Area: 44.070158 sq mi (land), 5.257232 sq mi (water)

Blue, MO (township, FIPS 09506490)
Location: (39.084355, -94.441966)
Population (2000): 160,144 (70,707 housing units)
Area: 110.825393 sq mi (land), 2.780154 sq mi (water)

Blue Springs-Wymore, NE (township, FIPS 06705682)
Location: (40.127780, -96.661402)
Population (2000): 2,197 (1,026 housing units)
Area: 36.022261 sq mi (land), 0.027591 sq mi (water)

Little Blue, NE (township, FIPS 00128385)
Location: (40.396073, -98.321652)
Population (2000): 238 (95 housing units)
Area: 32.980889 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

West Blue, NE (township, FIPS 00152155)
Location: (40.662312, -98.344165)
Population (2000): 408 (136 housing units)
Area: 32.319135 sq mi (land), 0.000000 sq mi (water)

West Blue, NE (precinct, FIPS 18593410)
Location: (40.750148, -97.435318)
Population (2000): 136 (65 housing units)
Area: 35.906787 sq mi (land), 0.025241 sq mi (water)

West Blue, NE (township, FIPS 05952190)
Location: (40.647556, -97.662716)
Population (2000): 120 (49 housing units)
Area: 36.161919 sq mi (land), 0.009336 sq mi (water)

Little Blue, KS (township, FIPS 20141500)
Location: (39.777098, -96.866473)
Population (2000): 93 (45 housing units)
Area: 35.841122 sq mi (land), 0.030654 sq mi (water)

Big Blue, NE (precinct, FIPS 15190245)
Location: (40.573426, -96.976881)
Population (2000): 330 (129 housing units)
Area: 36.061081 sq mi (land), 0.024108 sq mi (water)

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Blue

Blue\, a. [Compar. Bluer; superl. Bluest.] [OE. bla, blo, blew, blue, Sw. bl?, D. blauw, OHG. bl?o, G. blau; but influenced in form by F. bleu, from OHG. bl[=a]o.]

1. Having the color of the clear sky, or a hue resembling it, whether lighter or darker; as, the deep, blue sea; as blue as a sapphire; blue violets. "The blue firmament." --Milton.

2. Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.

3. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.

4. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue. [Colloq.]

5. Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.

6. Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking. [Colloq.]

The ladies were very blue and well informed. --Thackeray.

Blue asbestus. See Crocidolite.

Blue black, of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black.

Blue blood. See under Blood.

Blue buck (Zo["o]l.), a small South African antelope (Cephalophus pygm[ae]us); also applied to a larger species ([AE]goceras leucoph[ae]us); the blaubok.

Blue cod (Zo["o]l.), the buffalo cod.

Blue crab (Zo["o]l.), the common edible crab of the Atlantic coast of the United States (Callinectes hastatus).

Blue curls (Bot.), a common plant (Trichostema dichotomum), resembling pennyroyal, and hence called also bastard pennyroyal.

Blue devils, apparitions supposed to be seen by persons suffering with delirium tremens; hence, very low spirits. "Can Gumbo shut the hall door upon blue devils, or lay them all in a red sea of claret?" --Thackeray.

Blue gage. See under Gage, a plum.

Blue gum, an Australian myrtaceous tree (Eucalyptus globulus), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus.

Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper.

Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval uniform.

Blue jaundice. See under Jaundice.

Blue laws, a name first used in the eighteenth century to describe certain supposititious laws of extreme rigor reported to have been enacted in New Haven; hence, any puritanical laws. [U. S.]

Blue light, a composition which burns with a brilliant blue flame; -- used in pyrotechnics and as a night signal at sea, and in military operations.

Blue mantle (Her.), one of the four pursuivants of the English college of arms; -- so called from the color of his official robes.

Blue mass, a preparation of mercury from which is formed the blue pill. --McElrath.

Blue mold, or mould, the blue fungus (Aspergillus glaucus) which grows on cheese. --Brande & C.

Blue Monday, a Monday following a Sunday of dissipation, or itself given to dissipation (as the Monday before Lent).

Blue ointment (Med.), mercurial ointment.

Blue Peter (British Marine), a blue flag with a white square in the center, used as a signal for sailing, to recall boats, etc. It is a corruption of blue repeater, one of the British signal flags.

Blue pill. (Med.) (a) A pill of prepared mercury, used as an aperient, etc. (b) Blue mass.

Blue ribbon. (a) The ribbon worn by members of the order of the Garter; -- hence, a member of that order. (b) Anything the attainment of which is an object of great ambition; a distinction; a prize. "These [scholarships] were the --blue ribbon of the college." --Farrar. (c) The distinctive badge of certain temperance or total abstinence organizations, as of the --Blue ribbon Army.

Blue ruin, utter ruin; also, gin. [Eng. Slang] --Carlyle.

Blue spar (Min.), azure spar; lazulite. See Lazulite.

Blue thrush (Zo["o]l.), a European and Asiatic thrush (Petrocossyphus cyaneas).

Blue verditer. See Verditer.

Blue vitriol (Chem.), sulphate of copper, a violet blue crystallized salt, used in electric batteries, calico printing, etc.

Blue water, the open ocean.

To look blue, to look disheartened or dejected.

True blue, genuine and thorough; not modified, nor mixed; not spurious; specifically, of uncompromising Presbyterianism, blue being the color adopted by the Covenanters.

For his religion . . . 'T was Presbyterian, true blue. --Hudibras.

Blue

Blue\ (bl[=u]), n. 1. One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.

2. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking. [Colloq.]

3. pl. [Short for blue devils.] Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy. [Colloq.]

Berlin blue, Prussian blue.

Mineral blue. See under Mineral.

Prussian blue. See under Prussian.

Blue

Blue\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blued; p. pr. & vb. n. Bluing.] To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.