bluing
or blue·ing
[ bloo-ing ]
nounChemistry.
a substance, as indigo, used to whiten clothes or give them a bluish tinge.
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How to use bluing in a sentence
Two or three squeezes of a bluing ball, or a teaspoonful of liquid bluing is often a sufficient quantity for a tub of water.
The Library of Work and Play: Housekeeping | Elizabeth Hale GilmanThe bluing, consists in heating the piece till its copper or brass colour changes to blue.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines | Andrew Urebluing is used to neutralize the slightly yellowish tint of the fabric, when it cannot be completely bleached.
Foods and Household Management | Helen KinneThe colour reminds one of his boyhood when he interviewed the bluing water in the family wash-tub.
Days in the Open | Lathan A. CrandallDan was formerly a peddler of various kinds of flavoring extracts, ink and bluing.
Company G | A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow
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