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- English Word Blueback Definition An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.
- English Word Bluebeard Definition 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.
- English Word Bluebell Definition A plant of the genus Campanula, especially the Campanula rotundifolia, which bears blue bell-shaped flowers; the harebell.
- English Word Bluebell Definition A plant of the genus Scilla (Scilla nutans).
- English Word Blueberry Definition The berry of several species of Vaccinium, an ericaceous genus, differing from the American huckleberries in containing numerous minute seeds instead of ten nutlets. The commonest species are V. Pennsylvanicum and V. vacillans. V. corymbosum is the tall blueberry.
- English Word Bluebill Definition A duck of the genus Fuligula. Two American species (F. marila and F. affinis) are common. See Scaup duck.
- English Word Bluebird Definition A small song bird (Sialia sialis), very common in the United States, and, in the north, one of the earliest to arrive in spring. The male is blue, with the breast reddish. It is related to the European robin.
- English Word Bluebottle Definition A plant (Centaurea cyanus) which grows in grain fields. It receives its name from its blue bottle-shaped flowers.
- English Word Bluebottle Definition A large and troublesome species of blowfly (Musca vomitoria). Its body is steel blue.
- English Word Bluebreast Definition A small European bird; the blue-throated warbler.
- English Word Bluecap Definition The bluepoll.
- English Word Bluecap Definition The blue bonnet or blue titmouse.
- English Word Bluecap Definition A Scot; a Scotchman; -- so named from wearing a blue bonnet.
- English Word Bluecoat Definition One dressed in blue, as a soldier, a sailor, a beadle, etc.
- English Word Blued Definition of Blue
- English Word Bluefin Definition A species of whitefish (Coregonus nigripinnis) found in Lake Michigan.
- English Word Bluefish Definition A large voracious fish (Pomatomus saitatrix), of the family Carangidae, valued as a food fish, and widely distributed on the American coast. On the New Jersey and Rhode Island coast it is called the horse mackerel, in Virginia saltwater tailor, or skipjack.
- English Word Bluefish Definition A West Indian fish (Platyglossus radiatus), of the family Labridae.
- English Word Bluegown Definition One of a class of paupers or pensioners, or licensed beggars, in Scotland, to whim annually on the king's birthday were distributed certain alms, including a blue gown; a beadsman.
- English Word Bluely Definition With a blue color.
- English Word Blueness Definition The quality of being blue; a blue color.
- English Word Bluenose Definition A nickname for a Nova Scotian.
- English Word Bluepoll Definition A kind of salmon (Salmo Cambricus) found in Wales.
- English Word Blueprint Definition See under Print.
- English Word Bluestocking Definition A literary lady; a female pedant.
- English Word Bluestocking Definition The American avocet (Recurvirostra Americana).
- English Word Bluestockingism Definition The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry.
- English Word Bluestone Definition Blue vitriol.
- English Word Bluestone Definition A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.
- English Word Bluethroat Definition A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.