Bluetint

( Painting.) In coloring, this tint is made of ultramarine and white, mixed to a lightish azure. It is a pleasant working color, and with it should be blended the gradations in a picture. It follows the yel lows, and with them it makes the greens; and with the red it produces the purples. No color is so proper for blending down or softening the lights into keeping. In pictures of le value, Antwerp blue may be substituted for ultramarine. Blue'y, a . Rather blue; bluish. (R.) Bluff, a. [Probably from O. Eng. bloughty , swelled, puffed, which may be from bloat , bloated ; W. bloffi , to mingle.] Swollen out; blustering; big; burly. "Like those whom stature did to crowns prefer, Black-brow'd and bluf , like Homer's Jupiter." - Dryden. - Sometimes used for outspoken; rudely frank in manner or language; brusque; unceremonious; "as, Bluff King Hal." -Abrupt; bold; of a steep ascent; like a bluff. Bluff, n. A high steep bank projecting into the sea, or into the river; as the bluffs of the Mi i ippi. (This term is also applied, in the U. States, to any eminence presenting an abrupt front, even when at a distance from water; as, Council Bluffs .) - A game of cards. Bluff, v. a. To bluster; to repulse gruffly; to act in an overbearing manner. Bluff, in Mi ouri, a village of Holt co., 90 m. N.W. of Independence. -A post-office of Taney co. Bluff, in Wisconsin , a post-office of Sauk co. Bluff-bowed, Bluff-headed, a. [ bluff and bow .] (Naut.) A ve el with full and square bows. Bluff Bridge, in Virginia , a village of Washington co. Bluff City, in Illinois , a post-village of Schuyler co., 51 m. W. of Springfield. Bluff City, in Nebraska, a village of Gage co., 65 m. S.W. of Nebraska City. Bluff Creek, in Iowa, a thriving township of Monroe county. Bluff Dale, in Illinois, a post-village of Greene co., m. W.S.W. of Springfield. 65