Definitions for bluing

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bluing blu·ing

Spelling: [bloo-ing]

IPA: /ˈblu ɪŋ/

Bluing is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 79 anagrams from letters in bluing (bgilnu).

Definitions for bluing

noun

1. a substance, as indigo, used to whiten clothes or give them a bluish tinge.
2. 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.
3. bluing.
4. something having a blue color:
5. a person who wears blue or is a member of a group characterized by some blue symbol:
6. (often initial capital letter) a member of the Union army in the American Civil War or the army itself. Compare gray1 (def 13).
7. bluestocking.
8. blue ribbon (def 1).
9. any of several blue-winged butterflies of the family Lycaenidae.
10. Printing. blueline.
11. the blue. the sky. the sea. the remote distance:

Idioms

1. blue in the face, exhausted and speechless, as from excessive anger, physical strain, etc.:
2. out of the blue, suddenly and unexpectedly:

adjective

1. of the color of blue:
2. (initial capital letter) of or relating to the Union army in the American Civil War.
3. (of the skin) discolored by cold, contusion, fear, or vascular collapse.
4. depressed in spirits; dejected; melancholy:
5. holding or offering little hope; dismal; bleak:
6. characterized by or stemming from rigid morals or religion:
7. marked by blasphemy:
8. (of an animal's pelage) grayish-blue.
9. indecent; somewhat obscene; risqué:

verb (used with object)

1. to make blue; dye a blue color.
2. to tinge with bluing:

verb (used without object)

1. to become or turn blue.

Origin of bluing

First recorded in 1660-70; blue + -ing¹

Examples for bluing

The less essential are bluing, starching, and in some cases ironing.

Speak of the economy of buying soap, starch, and bluing at wholesale.

Instead it threw dirt into the water that had the bluing in it.

This sometimes shows in the color, as the "red rot" of pine or the "bluing" of ash.

Some kinds of wood are more susceptible to bluing than others.

By the side of it sat a tub for rinsing water and next to that a tub for bluing water.

And he has spilled his bluing pot, too—else how could all the sea be so blue?

The bluing of wood is an incipient decay and is generally due to fungus.

The Count Del Monte ate a box of bluing once, but it didn't hurt him.

That is all steel, but it is treated by a process called coloring or bluing.