Index of English words, starting with "bl"

(1) - Blubbery (a.) Like blubber; gelatinous and quivering; as, a blubbery mass.
(2) - Blubbery (a.) Swollen; protuberant.

(1) - Blucher (n.) A kind of half boot, named from the Prussian general Blucher.

(1) - Bludgeon (n.) A short stick, with one end loaded, or thicker and heavier that the other, used as an offensive weapon.

(1) - Blue (v. t.) To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
(2) - Blue (pl.) Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
(3) - Blue (n.) A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
(4) - Blue (n.) 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.
(5) - Blue (superl.) Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
(6) - Blue (superl.) 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.
(7) - Blue (superl.) Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
(8) - Blue (superl.) Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
(9) - Blue (superl.) 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.
(10) - Blue (superl.) 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.