bluing

or blue·ing

[ bloo-ing ]

nounChemistry.
  1. a substance, as indigo, used to whiten clothes or give them a bluish tinge.

Origin of bluing

1
First recorded in 1660–70; blue + -ing1

Words Nearby bluing

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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 bluing, consists in heating the piece till its copper or brass colour changes to blue.

  • bluing is used to neutralize the slightly yellowish tint of the fabric, when it cannot be completely bleached.

  • The colour reminds one of his boyhood when he interviewed the bluing water in the family wash-tub.

    Days in the Open | Lathan A. Crandall
  • Dan was formerly a peddler of various kinds of flavoring extracts, ink and bluing.

    Company G | A. R. (Albert Rowe) Barlow