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Webster 1913 Edition


Bluely

Blue′ly

,
adv.
With a blue color.
Swift.

Webster 1828 Edition


Bluely

BLU'ELY

,
adv.
With a blue color.

Definition 2024


bluely

bluely

English

Adverb

bluely (comparative more bluely, superlative most bluely)

  1. In a blue manner; bluishly.
    • 2004, Ellen Datlow, The Dark: New Ghost Stories:
      I pursed my lips thoughtfully, then reached out to prod the bluely gleaming chest of the thing with, I suppose, some notion of rolling it off the bed, [...]
    • 2005, Brian Lumley, The House of Cthulhu: Tales of the Primal Land:
      By now the bluely luminescent slug-gods were close indeed and their coughing calls loud in the darkness, [...]
    • 2011, Herman Melville, Lynn Michelsohn, In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville:
      They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled [...]

Noun

bluely (plural not attested)

  1. (Britain dialectal, Sussex, obsolete) Porpoise.
    • 1883, The Antiquary (page 260)
      The Sussex fishermen call the porpoise 'Bluely'.