bluely

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1. In a blue manner; bluishly.

   They formed an oval frame, through which the bluely boundless sea rolled […]

   2011, Herman Melville, Lynn Michelsohn, In the Galapagos Islands with Herman Melville

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   I pursed my lips thoughtfully, then reached out to prod the bluely gleaming chest of the thing with, I suppose, some notion of rolling it off the bed, […]

   2004, Ellen Datlow, The Dark: New Ghost Stories

   By now the bluely luminescent slug-gods were close indeed and their coughing calls loud in the darkness, […]

   2005, Brian Lumley, The House of Cthulhu: Tales of the Primal Land

1. UKdialectalno pluralobsoleteSussexPorpoise.

   The Sussex fishermen call the porpoise 'Bluely'.

   1883, The Antiquary, page 260