azure

• POS: Adjective, Noun
• HYPHEN: az=ure

CIDE DICTIONARY

azure, a. [F. & OSp. azur, Sp. azul, through Ar. from Per. lājaward, or lājuward, lapis lazuli, a blue color, lājawardī, lājuwardī, azure, cerulean, the initial l having been dropped, perhaps by the influence of the Ar. azr-aq azure, blue. Cf. G. lasur, lasurstein, azure color, azure stone, and NL. lapis lazuli.].

 Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue color of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.  [1913 Webster]

Azure stone (Min.), the lapis lazuli; also, the lazulite.

azure, n. 

•  The lapis lazuli.  [1913 Webster]
•  The clear blue color of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this color.  Wordsworth.  [1913 Webster]
•  The blue vault above; the unclouded sky.  [1913 Webster]

  "Not like those steps
  On heaven's azure."  [1913 Webster]
•  A blue color, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.  [1913 Webster]

azure, v. t. 

 To color blue.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

azure, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a a deep sky-blue colour. b Heraldry blue.
2 poet. the clear sky.
--adj.
1 a of the colour azure. b Heraldry blue.
2 serene, untroubled.

Etymology

ME f. OF asur, azur, f. med.L azzurum, azolum f. Arab. al the + lazaward f. Pers. lazward lapis lazuli

THESAURUS

azure

Caelus, achievement, air, alerion, animal charge, annulet, argent, armorial bearings, armory, arms, azure-blue, azure-colored, azurean, azured, azureness, azureous, bandeau, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearings, bend, bend sinister, beryl-blue, berylline, billet, blazon, blazonry, blue, blue sky, blueness, bluish, bluishness, bordure, broad arrow, cadency mark, caelum, canopy, canopy of heaven, canton, cerulean, ceruleous, cerulescent, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, cope, coronet, crescent, crest, cross, cross moline, crown, cyanean, cyanosis, dark-blue, deep-blue, device, difference, differencing, eagle, empyrean, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, ether, falcon, fess, fess point, field, file, firmament, flanch, fleur-de-lis, fret, fur, fusil, garland, griffin, gules, gyron, hatchment, heaven, heavens, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, hyaline, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, label, lift, lifts, light-blue, lightish-blue, lion, livid, lividity, lividness, lozenge, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, metal, motto, mullet, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pavonian, pavonine, peacock-blue, pean, pheon, purpure, quarter, quartering, rose, sable, saltire, sapphire, sapphirine, scutcheon, shield, sky, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, spread eagle, starry heaven, subordinary, tenne, the blue, the blue serene, tincture, torse, tressure, turquoise, unicorn, vair, vault, vault of heaven, vert, welkin, wreath, yale

ROGET THESAURUS

azure

Blueness

N blueness, blue, garter-blue, watchet, ultramarine, smalt, cobalt, cyanogen, Prussian blue, syenite blue, bice, indigo, zaffer, lapis lazuli, sapphire, turquoise, indicolite, blueness, bluishness, bloom, blue, azure, cerulean, sky-blue, sky-colored, sky-dyed, cerulescent, powder blue, bluish, atmospheric, retiring, cold.