Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for HUE
HUE, n.1 [Sax. hiewe, hiw, color, form, image, beauty; hiwian, to form, to feign, to simulate. This may be contracted, for in Sw. hyckla, Dan. hykler, is to play the hypocrite. Perhaps how is of this family.]
Color; dye. Flow'rs of all hue. Milton.
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