Bluish
['bluːɪʃ] or ['bluɪʃ]
Definition
(a.) Somewhat blue; as, bluish veins.
Edited by Colin
Examples
- While the arcs with plain carbons are bluish-white, those with carbons containing calcium fluoride have a notable golden glow. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- A large curved retort was boiling furiously in the bluish flame of a Bunsen burner, and the distilled drops were condensing into a two-litre measure. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I noticed a bluish tinge in her face which alarmed me. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- When she reached the top of the slope, in the wind, she looked round, and saw peak beyond peak of rock and snow, bluish, transcendent in heaven. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He had on a silk wrap of a beautiful bluish colour, with an amethyst hem. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Gerald stumbled on up the slope of snow, in the bluish darkness, always climbing, always unconsciously climbing, weary though he was. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- I thought of the bluish tinge which I had noticed in her complexion. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- At the anode it appears as a peach blossom glow, and at the cathode it appears as a bluish green light. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- But now he was dead, like clay, like bluish, corruptible ice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The day came fine and bluish. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The twilight spread a weird, unearthly light overhead, bluish-rose in colour, the cold blue night sank on the snow. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It had a bluish caSt. It sent a shaft like ice through the heart of the living man. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Edited by Colin