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bluish, a.|ˈbluːɪʃ|
Forms: 5 blewyssh, 6 -isshe, 6–8 -ish, 6– bluish, 8– blueish.
[f. blue a. + -ish1.]
Somewhat blue.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xix. (1495) 875 The colour is blewe or blewyssh. 1586Warner Alb. Eng. iv. (R.) Her snowish necke with blewish vaines. 1712tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I, Tending to a little blewish Colour. 1713Rowe J. Shore v. Wks. 1792 II. 180 A waving flood of blueish fire. 1860Tyndall Glac. ii. §7. 261 Thin milk, when poured upon a black surface, appears bluish.
b. Comb. modifying other colours, as bluish-brown, bluish-green, bluish-purple, bluish-red, bluish-white, etc.; also bluish-coloured.
1769Sir J. Hill Fam. Herbal (1812) 1 The leaves are of a bluish green. 1792Gentl. Mag. LXII. i. 113 The capitulum is..bluish brown. 1836Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. I. 443/2 A bone..exhibits a bluish-grey colour. 1858W. Ellis Visits Madagasc. viii. 199 The dark bluish-coloured original limestone.
Hence also ˈbluishly adv., ˈbluishness.
1611Cotgr., Lividité, roannesse, bleakenesse, palenesse, blewishnesse. 1790Wedgwood in Phil. Trans. LXXX. 313 The usual bluishness, arising from the iron always found in the common acids. 1875Howells Foregone Concl. 4 That transparent blueishness, which comes from much shaving of a heavy black beard. |