Bluestockingism: Definition and part of speech

Bluestockingism

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

n. A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.
n. Blue vitriol.

n. A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; — called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.

n. A large sea nettle or medusa.
n. A bubble.
n. The fat of whales and other large sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

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

pl. Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
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.
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.
superl. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
superl. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked 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.
superl. Literary; — applied to women; — an abbreviation of bluestocking.
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.
n. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.