bluingn.

Brit.

/ˈbluːɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈbluɪŋ/

Forms: 1600s bleweing, 1600s–1700s blewing, 1700s– blueing, 1700s– bluing.

Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blue n., -ing suffix¹; blue v.¹, -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: Probably partly (in sense 1) < blue n. (compare blue n. 1c) + -ing suffix¹, and partly < blue v.¹ + -ing suffix¹.

a. A substance that imparts a blue tint; esp. laundry blue (see blue n. 1c).In quot. 1761: laundry that is to be washed or treated with laundry blue.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > preparations for washing clothes

blue starch1592

blue1620

powder blue1628

bluing1652

smalt-blue1735

blue bag1818

Reckitt's blue1877

washing-blue1881

scour1888

Reckitt's bag blue1925

Reckitt's blue bag1925

soil-release1969

1652 O. Felltham Brief Char. Low-Countries 51 They rail at England for spending no more Blewing.

1669 Sir T. Browne Let. 28 Apr. (1946) 51 Enquire after smalt, a stone wherof they make bleweing for paynting & starch.

1761 H. D. Reynolds Diary 19 Jan. in E. Greg Reynolds–Rathbone Diaries & Lett. (1905) 13 Wash'd Blewing and Starching, and Ironed most of the small cloths.

1852 S. Moodie Roughing It in Bush I. v. 92 She borrowed of me tea, sugar, candles, starch, blueing, irons, pots, bowls—in short, every article in common domestic use.

1897 Star 17 Sept. 4/7 Dust the glass with powdered bluing done up in a bit of cheese cloth.

1910 Amer. Blacksmith Sept. 306/1 The new parts of the bearing should then be covered with bluing.

1967 J. Singer & E. Gottleib tr. I. B. Singer Manor ii. xvi. 207 There was a stench of soap, lye, washing soda, and bluing.

1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xxvi. 370/2 Few people use straight bluing anymore, but it is an ingredient in many detergents and all-fabric bleaches.

2003 L. Eiseman Color Answer Bk. xv. 78 Little white-haired ladies ‘enhanced’ their tight curly perms by applying bluing to their heads.

b. The action or process of using this; the washing of white linen, clothing, etc., with laundry blue. Cf. blue v.¹ 2. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > optical whitening

bluing1726

1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 397 It was Indigo unrefined, which she endeavouring to use for the blueing of her Linnen.

1785 Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. 1 26 All the operations of the whitster [sc. bleacher]; the steeping, washing.., scouring, rubbing and blueing.

1837 R. Huish Female's Friend 103/2 The last operation is starching and blueing, but as the process is known to every housewife, the detail would be unnecessary.

1877 E. W. Wilcox Buckeye Cookery & Pract. Housek. (ed. 2) 388 Clothes..must not lie long in the water; the boiling,..rinsing and bluing must follow each other in rapid succession.

1977 W. Foley No Pipe Dreams for Father 5 Old Auntie was a washer of the old school, a believer in starching, blueing, and plenty of rinsing.

2004 J. Bredenberg 2,001 Amazing Cleaning Secrets v. 32/1 A century ago, everyone who did laundry knew about bluing. It was how you got whites really white.

2. The action, process, or fact of making or becoming blue in colour.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > making blue > [noun]

bluing1735

1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. at Blue Blue the stuff to the depth of indigo... After the bluing, the stuff must be rinsed clean.

1803 Imison's Elements Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 406 Azuring or bluing is performed by throwing into the Spanish white liquor, a solution of one part of prussian blue to 400 parts of water.

1869 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 3 237 Both pus and milk possess the power of blueing intensely guiacum tincture.

1925 Lancet 3 Jan. 34/1 Another slightly differing form is probably exemplified by polychromatophilia—a diffuse and abnormal bluing of Romanowsky-stained red cells.

1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) liv. 573 Cobalt oxide is used in making blue glass and glazes, and also for ‘blueing’ in the porcelain industry.

2000 S. Gilbert Tattoo Hist. xv. 146 He had left England several times with some of the facial tattoos finished but with the blueing of his body incomplete.

3. The action or process of treating steel or steel objects (in later use esp. firearms) so as to produce a protective layer of oxide which imparts a greyish-blue colour to the steel. Also: the greyish-blue finish that results from this process.Bluing was originally done by heating but now typically involves applying chemicals.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > colouring metal

bluing1735

metallochromy1837

1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. (at cited word) Blueing of metals, is perform'd by heating them in the fire till they assume a Blue colour; particularly practis'd by gilders, who blue their metals before they apply the gold and silver leaf.

1789 tr. G. F. Magné De Marolles Ess. Shooting ii. 29 The painful sensation excited in the eye by looking along a barrel so coloured, has caused the practice of blueing to be disused for some time past.

1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. 63/3 The [sword] blade..combines embossing with engraving, blueing, and gilding.

1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 34 Pieces [of steel] that have been cleaned in dirty benzine..will become specky in bluing.

1971 Field & Stream Dec. 12/1 [He] showed me his first gun, a silvery .22, with the bluing long worn off.

2011 T. Turpin in D. Shideler Gun Digest 2012 46/3 The rifle is finished with the exception of the final metal finishing and bluing.

Compounds

General attributive, as bluing pan, bluing process, bluing water, etc.

ΚΠ

1805 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Sept. 63 [The blue colour] may be restored again by the blueing process without any previous hardening.

1830 Sheffield Independent, & Yorks. & Derbyshire Advertiser 27 Mar. To be sold by auction, by Mr. Saunders... Four pairs of very good Vices, Blueing Pan, Marks, [etc.].

1857 H. Melville Confidence-man xxx. 274 A heart like a wrung-out old bluing-bag.

1937 T. Turner in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 170 Bluing water is mighty good for horses or dogs that have distemper.

1991 Boston Apr. 129/1 Roughly 99 percent of all the new sapphires sold at retail are baked in ovens to accelerate nature's bluing process.

1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xix. 282/1 The use of soaps or detergents, softeners, bluing agents, boosters, and the like.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bluing
释义	bluingn. Brit. /ˈbluːɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈbluɪŋ/ Forms: 1600s bleweing, 1600s–1700s blewing, 1700s– blueing, 1700s– bluing. Origin: Probably formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: blue n., -ing suffix¹; blue v.¹, -ing suffix¹. Etymology: Probably partly (in sense 1) < blue n. (compare blue n. 1c) + -ing suffix¹, and partly < blue v.¹ + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. A substance that imparts a blue tint; esp. laundry blue (see blue n. 1c).In quot. 1761: laundry that is to be washed or treated with laundry blue. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing agents > [noun] > preparations for washing clothes blue starch1592 blue1620 powder blue1628 bluing1652 smalt-blue1735 blue bag1818 Reckitt's blue1877 washing-blue1881 scour1888 Reckitt's bag blue1925 Reckitt's blue bag1925 soil-release1969 1652 O. Felltham Brief Char. Low-Countries 51 They rail at England for spending no more Blewing. 1669 Sir T. Browne Let. 28 Apr. (1946) 51 Enquire after smalt, a stone wherof they make bleweing for paynting & starch. 1761 H. D. Reynolds Diary 19 Jan. in E. Greg Reynolds–Rathbone Diaries & Lett. (1905) 13 Wash'd Blewing and Starching, and Ironed most of the small cloths. 1852 S. Moodie Roughing It in Bush I. v. 92 She borrowed of me tea, sugar, candles, starch, blueing, irons, pots, bowls—in short, every article in common domestic use. 1897 Star 17 Sept. 4/7 Dust the glass with powdered bluing done up in a bit of cheese cloth. 1910 Amer. Blacksmith Sept. 306/1 The new parts of the bearing should then be covered with bluing. 1967 J. Singer & E. Gottleib tr. I. B. Singer Manor ii. xvi. 207 There was a stench of soap, lye, washing soda, and bluing. 1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xxvi. 370/2 Few people use straight bluing anymore, but it is an ingredient in many detergents and all-fabric bleaches. 2003 L. Eiseman Color Answer Bk. xv. 78 Little white-haired ladies ‘enhanced’ their tight curly perms by applying bluing to their heads. b. The action or process of using this; the washing of white linen, clothing, etc., with laundry blue. Cf. blue v.¹ 2. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > optical whitening bluing1726 1726 Four Years Voy. Capt. G. Roberts 397 It was Indigo unrefined, which she endeavouring to use for the blueing of her Linnen. 1785 Mem. Literary & Philos. Soc. Manch. 1 26 All the operations of the whitster [sc. bleacher]; the steeping, washing.., scouring, rubbing and blueing. 1837 R. Huish Female's Friend 103/2 The last operation is starching and blueing, but as the process is known to every housewife, the detail would be unnecessary. 1877 E. W. Wilcox Buckeye Cookery & Pract. Housek. (ed. 2) 388 Clothes..must not lie long in the water; the boiling,..rinsing and bluing must follow each other in rapid succession. 1977 W. Foley No Pipe Dreams for Father 5 Old Auntie was a washer of the old school, a believer in starching, blueing, and plenty of rinsing. 2004 J. Bredenberg 2,001 Amazing Cleaning Secrets v. 32/1 A century ago, everyone who did laundry knew about bluing. It was how you got whites really white. 2. The action, process, or fact of making or becoming blue in colour. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > blue or blueness > making blue > [noun] bluing1735 1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. at Blue Blue the stuff to the depth of indigo... After the bluing, the stuff must be rinsed clean. 1803 Imison's Elements Sci. & Art (new ed.) II. 406 Azuring or bluing is performed by throwing into the Spanish white liquor, a solution of one part of prussian blue to 400 parts of water. 1869 Jrnl. Anat. & Physiol. 3 237 Both pus and milk possess the power of blueing intensely guiacum tincture. 1925 Lancet 3 Jan. 34/1 Another slightly differing form is probably exemplified by polychromatophilia—a diffuse and abnormal bluing of Romanowsky-stained red cells. 1940 G. H. J. Adlam & L. S. Price Higher School Certificate Inorg. Chem. (ed. 2) liv. 573 Cobalt oxide is used in making blue glass and glazes, and also for ‘blueing’ in the porcelain industry. 2000 S. Gilbert Tattoo Hist. xv. 146 He had left England several times with some of the facial tattoos finished but with the blueing of his body incomplete. 3. The action or process of treating steel or steel objects (in later use esp. firearms) so as to produce a protective layer of oxide which imparts a greyish-blue colour to the steel. Also: the greyish-blue finish that results from this process.Bluing was originally done by heating but now typically involves applying chemicals. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > colouring metal bluing1735 metallochromy1837 1735 J. Barrow Dict. Polygraphicum I. (at cited word) Blueing of metals, is perform'd by heating them in the fire till they assume a Blue colour; particularly practis'd by gilders, who blue their metals before they apply the gold and silver leaf. 1789 tr. G. F. Magné De Marolles Ess. Shooting ii. 29 The painful sensation excited in the eye by looking along a barrel so coloured, has caused the practice of blueing to be disused for some time past. 1851 Art Jrnl. Illustr. Catal. 63/3 The [sword] blade..combines embossing with engraving, blueing, and gilding. 1884 F. J. Britten Watch & Clockmakers' Handbk. (new ed.) 34 Pieces [of steel] that have been cleaned in dirty benzine..will become specky in bluing. 1971 Field & Stream Dec. 12/1 [He] showed me his first gun, a silvery .22, with the bluing long worn off. 2011 T. Turpin in D. Shideler Gun Digest 2012 46/3 The rifle is finished with the exception of the final metal finishing and bluing. Compounds General attributive, as bluing pan, bluing process, bluing water, etc. ΚΠ 1805 Jrnl. Nat. Philos. Sept. 63 [The blue colour] may be restored again by the blueing process without any previous hardening. 1830 Sheffield Independent, & Yorks. & Derbyshire Advertiser 27 Mar. To be sold by auction, by Mr. Saunders... Four pairs of very good Vices, Blueing Pan, Marks, [etc.]. 1857 H. Melville Confidence-man xxx. 274 A heart like a wrung-out old bluing-bag. 1937 T. Turner in J. F. Dobie & M. C. Boatright Straight Texas 170 Bluing water is mighty good for horses or dogs that have distemper. 1991 Boston Apr. 129/1 Roughly 99 percent of all the new sapphires sold at retail are baked in ovens to accelerate nature's bluing process. 1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts xix. 282/1 The use of soaps or detergents, softeners, bluing agents, boosters, and the like. 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