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blee arch.|bliː|
Forms: 1 blío, blíoh, bléo(h, 1–4 bleo, (3 blo), 3–9 ble, 4–7, 9 blee, (6 bleye).
[OE. bléo (bléoh, after féoh) str. neut. = OS. blî, OFris. blî, blie, north.Fris. bläy:—OTeut. *blîjo-(m colour, hue. (Not connected with blae, blue.) A purely poetical word in ME., which gradually became obs. in the course of the 16th or early in the 17th c. (not in Shakespeare); but being frequent in ballads and metrical romances, it has been used by one or two modern poets. Cf. dial. bly, thought by some to be a survival of ble.]
1. Colour, hue. arch.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xv, Ne seolocenra hræᵹla mid mistlicum bleowum hi ne ᵹimdon. a1000Metr. Boeth. xxxi. 7 Habbað blioh and fær bu unᵹelice. c1000ælfric Numb. xi. 7 Hwites bleos swa cristalla. c1250Gen. & Ex. 749 A water of loðlic ble. c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 76 As blwe as ble of ynde. 1460Lybeaus Disc. 458 In armes bryght of ble. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N.T. Ded. 9 Greene, Red, Yellow, Blew, Of sundry blee; more sad, or light, in graine. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 57 The captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee.
2. Colour of the face, complexion; visage. arch.
a1225St. Marher. 9 Hire bleo bigon to blakien. c1240Wohunge 269 Ȝif hit to þi blisfule bleo mihte beo euenet. c1325E.E. Allit. P. A. 212 Her ble more blaȝt þen whallez-bon. c1440York Myst. xxviii. 259, I will no more be abasshed For blenke of thy blee. a1500(MS. 16th c.) Chester Pl. II. 187 Wher is my bleye that was so brighte? 1557Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 100 Who nothing loues in woman, but her blee. 1615T. Adams Spirit. Navig. 42 Of a fresher blee than Daniel. a1700Lovers' Quarrel 2 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 253 Ladies that been so bright of blee. 1834Blackw. Mag. XXXV. 715 His daughter bright of blee.
†3. transf. Appearance, form. Obs.
a1000Salomon & Sat. (1848) 144 Hu moniᵹes bleos bið ðæt deofol. c1330Arth. & Merl. 1988 Where that Merlin dede him se In o day in thre ble. |