Used to whiten laundry or hair or give it a bluish tinge.
1 The erythematous reaction began later and persisted longer than the blueing .
2 A very little blueing in the rinsing water gives a purer, clearer white.
3 I expect he's blueing some of that fiver in anticipation.
4 The blueing tends to counteract any yellow tinge in the clothes, making them appear whiter.
5 You know that you do not put much blueing into a washtub full of water.
6 Who is blueing out letters on the street signs of Dublin, and to what end?
7 The time course of leukocyte emigration was found roughly to parallel that of the blueing reaction.
8 The pebbles on the beach under the water looked as if they were in a basin of blueing .
9 By ten o'clock, the tenuous blueing of the sky was the only evidence that there had been fog.
10 Afterward they should be very thoroughly rinsed or they may irritate the skin, and ironed without starch or blueing .
11 Every cake of indigo used for ' blueing ' our post-demy is taken from a batch supplied by the same maker.
12 Do not rub blankets on a washboard, as it makes them hard, and blueing added makes them a dull gray color.
13 Greens may be obtained by dyeing with any of the yellow dyes and blueing in the Indigo Vat or with Indigo Extract.
14 Faded Crepe.-Fadedcrepe can be dipped into a solution of water and indigo, the water made very dark with blueing for the purpose.
15 "Just as we put blueing in clothes," Theo ventured.
16 "Dinah is going to give us some blueing that she uses on the clothes, and I'm going to paint stripes on Snap."
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