Azure

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"
    

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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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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Azure \Az"ure\, v. t.
   To color blue.
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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
    

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