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bluestone, blue stone
[blue a. 12 c.]
1. a. Copper sulphate.
1651Biggs New Disp. 27 That divine blew stone, is but Roman vitriol, that is to be had at every Druggist and Apothecaries shops. 1883Knowledge 1 June 323/2 Crystals of pure bluestone (sulphate of copper, CuSO4). 1932R. F. Fortune Sorcerers of Dobu 46, I doctored a leg-sore with bluestone.
b. Gin or whisky of so poor a quality as to be comparable with vitriol (sense 4). slang. Cf. blue ruin s.v. blue a. 13.
1880Blackw. Mag. June 786 The effects of the mixture of spirits of wine, bluestone, and tobacco-juice. 1882N. & Q. V. 348 ‘It wasn't whiskey,’ he said, ‘it was nothing but bluestone.’
2. a. A building or paving stone of a bluish grey colour; spec. U.S., a bluish argillaceous sandstone quarried near the Hudson river. Also attrib.
1709Lawson Carolina 50 This [river]..affords as good blue Stone for Mill-Stones, as that from Cologn. 1852A. Cary Clovernook 106 A little puddle of water had..soiled the bluestone hearth. 1895Dana Man. Geol. (ed. 4) 593 The thicker layers [of flagstones] are called bluestone, from the bluish gray color. 1906Chamberlin & Salisbury Geol. II. 559 Bluestone formation... Purple shale and thin red sandstone, with calcareous beds.
b. A basalt used for building and other industrial purposes. Austral. and N.Z.
1850Australasian Oct. 138 A stone not unlike the trap or bluestone around Melbourne. 1886J. Hector Handbk. N.Z. (ed. 4) 58 Basalts, locally called ‘blue-stones’, occur of a quality useful for road-metal, house-blocks, and ordinary rubble masonry. 1961Coast to Coast 1959–60 36 He built the bluestone house near that little chapel you can see from here. 1969Melbourne Truth 12 July 2/3 The hotel..has been renovated by putting brick veneer over the original bluestone.
c. Term applied to the stones, geologically foreign to the site, forming the inner circle and inner horseshoe of Stonehenge; later identified as spotted dolerite from the Prescelly Hills in Pembrokeshire. Also attrib.
1812Sir R. C. Hoare Anc. Hist. S. Wilts. v. 127 One of the blue stones of Stonehenge. 1865J. Lubbock Pre-historic Times ii. 52 Fragments, not only of Sarcen stones, but also of the blue stones which form the inner circle at Stonehenge. 1926Man XXVI. 42 Stonehenge—the supposed blue stone trilithon. 1957Childe Dawn Europ. Civilization (ed. 6) xviii. 331 From the Presely Mountains in South-West Wales huge blocks of spotted dolerite (Bluestone) were transported to Salisbury Plain. |