[syn: azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Azure \Az"ure\ (?; 277), a. [F. & OSp. azur, Sp. azul, through
Ar. from Per. l[=a]jaward, or l[=a]juward, lapis lazuli, a
blue color, l[=a]jaward[imac], l[=a]juward[imac], azure,
cerulean, the initial l having been dropped, perhaps by the
influence of the Ar. azr-aq azure, blue. Cf. G. lasur,
lasurstein, azure color, azure stone, and NL. lapis lazuli.]
Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded
sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
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Azure stone (Min.), the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Azure \Az"ure\, n.
1. The lapis lazuli. [Obs.]
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2. The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of
this color. "In robes of azure." --Wordsworth.
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3. The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.
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Not like those steps
On heaven's azure. --Milton.
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4. (Her.) A blue color, represented in engraving by
horizontal parallel lines.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Azure \Az"ure\, v. t.
To color blue.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
azure
adj 1: of a deep somewhat purplish blue color similar to that of
a clear October sky; "October's bright blue weather"
[syn: azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue]
n 1: a light shade of blue [syn: azure, cerulean,
sapphire, lazuline, sky-blue]
v 1: color azure; "Morning azured the village"
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
157 Moby Thesaurus words for "azure":
Caelus, achievement, air, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent,
armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure-blue, azure-colored,
azurean, azured, azureness, azureous, bandeau, bar, bar sinister,
baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, beryl-blue, berylline,
billet, blazon, blazonry, blue, blue sky, blueness, bluish,
bluishness, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, caelum, canopy,
canopy of heaven, canton, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent,
chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, cope,
coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cyanean,
cyanosis, dark-blue, deep-blue, device, difference, differencing,
eagle, empyrean, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon,
ether, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, firmament, flanch,
fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron,
hatchment, heaven, heavens, helmet, heraldic device, honor point,
hyaline, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lift, lifts,
light-blue, lightish-blue, lion, livid, lividity, lividness,
lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto,
mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly,
pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, pean, pheon, purpure, quarter,
quartering, rose, sable, saltire, sapphire, sapphirine, scutcheon,
shield, sky, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, spread eagle,
starry heaven, subordinary, tenne, the blue, the blue serene,
tincture, torse, tressure, turquoise, unicorn, vair, vault,
vault of heaven, vert, welkin, wreath, yale
U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000):
Azure, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 253
Housing Units (2000): 59
Land area (2000): 4.462862 sq. miles (11.558759 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.462862 sq. miles (11.558759 sq. km)
FIPS code: 03212
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 48.311831 N, 109.811213 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Azure, MT
Azure