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Blubbery: Definition and part of speech

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Blubbery

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

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.

Bludgeon: Definition and part of speech

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Bludgeon

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

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.

Blue: Definition and part of speech

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Blue

  1. pl. Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. superl. Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
  5. superl. Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
  6. 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. superl. Literary; — applied to women; — an abbreviation of bluestocking.
  8. 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.
  9. n. A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
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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.

Blueback: Definition and part of speech

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Blueback

  1. n. An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.
  2. n. A trout (Salmo oquassa) inhabiting some of the lakes of Maine.
  3. n. A salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) of the Columbia River and northward.

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.

Bluebeard: Definition and part of speech

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Bluebeard

  1. n. The hero of a mediaeval 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.

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.

Bluebell: Definition and part of speech

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Bluebell

  1. n. A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).
  2. n. A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.

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.