n. The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus caeruleus), so called from its color.
the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
adj. Azure.
n. The blue roach of Europe (Leuciscus cæruleus); -- so called from its color.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Azure.
n. An English book-name of a fish which is a variety of the rudd; the blue roach.
n. A bird of the genus Malurus (which see).
n. A bluish-black shade produced in printing with aniline black, formed by treating the fabric with ammonia after the black is completely developed.
n. A crystalline base. C35H32N4O3, formed by heating a mixture of orthotoluene diamine and salicylic aldehyde. It melts at 251° C.
Word Usage
"Also, some of their women tint their faces proportionally, as chin, cheeks, and forehead and the wrists of their hands, whereupon they lay a colour which continueth dark azurine."