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Blue Light
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What does Blue Light mean?
noun
- A flashing light, usually fitted to an emergency vehicle.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see blue, light.
verb
- (informal) To travel quickly in a police or ambulance vehicle with the lightbar (and possibly the siren) activated.
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noun
- (historical) A mixture of chemicals (including nitre, sulfur and antimony) used in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries for night-time signaling and general illumination.
- (historical) A New England federalist, who opposed the Anglo-American War of 1812; (loosely), a federalist.
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It seemed to him that she filled the entire extremity of the alley with a vague blue light.
As with our kingfishers, one has the sense of a brilliant flash of blue light shooting past one.
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A blue light appeared in the zenith, and in some indescribable manner flickered down near the top of the rod.
Far over on the Surrey shore a blue light--vaporous, mysterious--flicked translucent tongues against the night's curtain.
The blue light about them was growing deeper and darker, and the falling snow and the faint trees had become violet.