Meaning of blue light | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A mixture of chemicals (including nitre, sulfur and antimony) used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for night-time signaling and general illumination.
   countable, historical, uncountable
2. A New England federalist, who opposed the Anglo-American War of 1812; (loosely), a federalist.
   US, colloquial, countable, historical, uncountable
3. A flashing light, usually fitted to an emergency vehicle.
   countable
4. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, light.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Blue lights, or blue fire, is a preparation in which zinc and sulphur, or sulphur alone, are used. The particular colour is communicated by the zinc and sulphur.”

“The blue-light, which, at its first flashing over the ocean, had made the very stars pale their lustre, and lighted up with ghastly radiance the enormous vault of heaven, was now only a point⟳ […].”

“When the 'Canandaigua' got astern, and was lying athwart, of the 'Housatonic,' about four ship lengths off, while I was in the fore rigging, I saw⟳ a blue light⟳ on the water just ahead of the 'Canandaigua,' and on the starboard quarter of the 'Housatonic.'”

“The “Blue-Light Elder” knows ’em well; / Says he, “That’s Banks — he’s fond of shell; / Lord save⟳ his soul! We’ll give⟳ him” — well, / that’s “Stonewall Jackson’s Way.””

“Blue-light escorts were provided where possible to get⟳ engineers to the stranded GTR trains to reset the software.”

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