Emily Dickinson Lexicon

blue (-st), adj. [ME blew > OFr bleu.] (webplay: glass, light, sky).

1. Soothing; safe; comforting; familiar.
2. Constant; unchanging; consistent; unvarying; eternal.
3. Sad; low; gloomy; depressing; downcast; miserable.
4. Pale; thin; weak; tentative; hesitant; wavering.
5. Waterlogged; [fig.] choking; suffocating.
6. Heavenly; celestial; moonlit; related to the atmosphere.
7. Aqua; color of frozen water; [fig.] cold; chilly; frost-bitten; without circulation of blood; lifeless; spiritless; almost dead.
8. Deep; vast; extensive; ample; oceanic; marine; related to the sea.
9. Azure; celeste; cerulean; of the tint of the sky; of the hue of the sea; having one of the seven colors of the spectrum into which light divides.
10. Phrase. “Blue Bird”: [see bluebird, n.]