blees

Noun

blee (countable and uncountable, plural blees)

1. (poetic, otherwise archaic) Color, hue.
   • Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee,— / Toll slowly.1850, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Rhyme of the Duchess May”, in Poems. … In Two Volumes, new edition, volume II, London: Chapman & Hall, 193, Piccadilly. (Late, 186 Strand), →OCLC, stanza XXVI, page...
2. (archaic) Color of the face, complexion, coloring.
   • "The Felon Sow of Rokeby and the Freers of Richmond", in Christopher Clarkson, The History of Richmond, in the County of York, Thomas Bowman (publ., 1821, appendix, cvii.
     The sew she would not Latin heare, / But rudely rushed at the Frear, / That he blinked all his blee ; / And when she would have...
3. (archaic) Consistency, form, texture.
   • I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee: / And earth's soul yawns disembowelled of her pancreatic organs, / Like a madrepore if mesmerized, in rapt catalepsy.1880, Algernon Charles Swinburne, “The Poet and the Woodlouse”, in The Heptalogia, or, The Seven against Sense: A Cap with Seven Bells (Specimens of Modern Poets), London: Chatto & Windus...
4. (East-Anglia, otherwise archaic) General resemblance, likeness; appearance, aspect, look.
   • 16th c., Nicholas Grimald, The life and poems of Nicholas Grimald, Yale Studies in English, Volume 69, 1925, page 379.
     Meane beautie doth soone fade: therof playn hee, / Who nothing loves in woman, but her blee.

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