Free Translator Free Translator
Translators Dictionaries Courses Other
Home
English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Blue devil   /blu dˈɛvəl/   Listen
Blue devil

noun
1.
A coarse prickly European weed with spikes of blue flowers; naturalized in United States.  Synonyms: blue thistle, blueweed, Echium vulgare, viper's bugloss.
2.
The sodium salt of amobarbital that is used as a barbiturate; used as a sedative and a hypnotic.  Synonyms: amobarbital sodium, Amytal, blue, blue angel.






WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University








Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words



Share |





"Blue devil" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the over-emotion of his self-centered passion, so terribly driven to prove to himself something vague yet all-powerful, illusive yet imperious, divined what these Blue Devil soldiers had been through. His mind was more than telepathic. Almost it seemed that souls were bared to him. These soldiers, quiet, intent, made up a grim group of men. They seemed slow, thoughtful, plodding, ...
— The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey

... it was this sign. If the name of this miserable little country tavern had been anything suitable to itself and the place, if it had been called The Plough and Harrow, The Gray Horse, or even The Blue Devil, I think I should have been glad to see it. A village inn might have been a point of interest to me, but Central Hotel in this mournful settlement of small farmers ...
— The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton

... chanson? Vell, sair, I shall sing to frighten avay de littel blue devil; vill you I shall sing de ...
— She Would Be a Soldier - The Plains of Chippewa • Mordecai Manuel Noah



Copyright © 2024 Free-Translator.com