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blue moon

The second full moon occurring in the same month derived from the expression once in a blue moon as we had a blue moon on January 31 1999 and another in March...


Quasi-solitary confinement

Quasi-solitary confinement, solitary confinement, but partial. In Sunil Batra's case the accused was locked up in a small cell. He was visited by guards and prison officals. A few callers were allowed to meet him once in a blue moon. [Sunil Batra v. Delhi Administration, AIR 1978 SC 1675 (1687), para 45]. (Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer)...


Moon culminating

Culminating or coming to the meredian at or about the same time with the moon said of a star or stars esp of certain stars selected beforehand and named in an ephemeris as the Nautical Almanac as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination for determining terrestrial longitude...


Mooned

Of or resembling the moon symbolized by the moon...


blue law

blue law [blue puritanical] : a statute regulating work, commerce, and amusements on Sunday NOTE: Existing blue laws derive from the numerous extremely rigorous laws designed to regulate morals and conduct that were enacted in colonial New England. ...


Blue

Having the color of the clear sky or a hue resembling it whether lighter or darker as the deep blue sea as blue as a sapphire blue violets...


blue chip

blue chip : a stock issue of high investment quality that usually pertains to a substantial well-established company and enjoys public confidence in its worth and stability blue-chip adj ...


blue-sky

blue-sky 1 : having little or no value [ stock] 2 : of or relating to blue-sky laws ...


blue blind

unable to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow...


Blue Hen State

The State of Delaware a popular sobriquet It is said though the story lacks proof to have taken its origin from the insistence of a Delaware Revolutionary captain named Caldwell that no cock could be truly game unless the mother was a blue hen whence Blue Hens Chickens came to be a nickname for the people of Delaware...


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