Blue"stock`ing*ism (&?;), n. The character or manner of a bluestocking; female pedantry. [Colloq.]
Blue"stone` (&?;), n. 1. Blue vitriol. Dunglison.
2. A grayish blue building stone, as that commonly used in the eastern United States.
Blue"throat` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A singing bird of northern Europe and Asia (Cyanecula Suecica), related to the nightingales; -- called also blue-throated robin and blue-throated warbler.
Blu"ets (&?;), n. [F. bluet, bleuet, dim. of bleu blue. See Blue, a.] (Bot.) A name given to several different species of plants having blue flowers, as the Houstonia cœrulea, the Centaurea cyanus or bluebottle, and the Vaccinium angustifolium.
Blue"-veined` (&?;), a. Having blue veins or blue streaks.
Blue"wing` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) The blue-winged teal. See Teal.
Blue"y (&?;), a. Bluish. Southey.
Bluff (&?;), a. [Cf. OD. blaf flat, broad, blaffaert one with a broad face, also, a boaster; or G. verblüffen to confuse, LG. bluffen to frighten; to unknown origin.] 1. Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship. "Bluff visages." Irving.
2. Rising steeply with a flat or rounded front. "A bluff or bold shore." Falconer.
Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect.
Judd.