blue (first in S. as applied to mountains, flame, and veins)
1.
formerly the distinctive colour of
the dress of servants Shr. IV. i.
93,
1H6 I. iii. 47
“Blue coats to tawny
coats.”
2.
leaden-coloured,
livid
Wiv. IV. v. 117
“beaten black and
blue,”
V. v. 51
“as blue as
bilberry.”
3.
applied to the
bluish-black circle round the eyes caused by weeping
or watching AYL. III. ii. 398, Lucr. 1587.
