“bluing”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

bluing

释义

blueing, bluing, vbl. n.|ˈbluːɪŋ|
[f. blue v.¹]
1. A making blue; spec. the process of giving a blue colour to metals. Also attrib., as blueing-pan.
1766Croker, etc. Dict. Arts & Sc. (1768) I., Blueing of Metals is performed by heating them in the fire, till they assume a blue colour.1851Art Jrnl. Catal. Gt. Exhib. 63/3 The [sword-] blade..combines embossing with engraving, blueing, and gilding.1884F. J. Britten Watch & Clockm. 34 The articles to be blued are placed in a blueing pan.
2. A substance that gives a blue tint, laundresses' blue.
1669Sir Thomas Browne Let. 28 Apr. (1946) 51 Enquire after smalt, a stone wherof they make bleweing for paynting & starch.1889Cent. Dict., Bluing..The indigo, soluble Prussian blue, or other material, used in the laundry to give a bluish tint to linen.1895Cal. Univ. Nebraska 1895–6 174 Soaps, washing powders, polishing powders, bluing, etc.1897Star 17 Sept. 4/7 Dust the glass with powdered bluing done up in a bit of cheese cloth.

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