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Azure vs Adure - What's the difference?

azure | adure |

As verbs the difference between azure and adure

is that azure is while adure is (obsolete) to burn up.

As an adjective azure

is azure (blue in colour).

azure

English

(wikipedia azure)

Noun

  • (tincture) A blue colour on a coat of arms, represented in engraving by horizontal parallel lines.
  • * 1997 , Brault, Early Blazon :
    • In Bb'' [Glover's Roll], the conventional letter ''B is used to indicate azure in most items.
  • The clear blue colour of the sky; also, a pigment or dye of this colour.
  • * Wordsworth
    • In robes of azure .
  • (poetic) The unclouded sky; the blue vault above.
  • *
    • Not like those steps / On heaven's azure .
  • Lapis lazuli.

    • Alternative forms

    * (blue color on a coat of arms)

    Derived terms

    * azurely * azureness * azurite * azurity

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Sky-blue; resembling the clear blue colour of the unclouded sky; cerulean; also, cloudless.
  • *
    • When Britain first, at Heaven's command / Arose from out the azure main.
  • (tincture) In blazon, of the colour blue.

    • Verb

    (azur)
  • To colour blue.

    • See also

    * ----

    adure

    English

    Verb

    (adur)
  • (obsolete) To burn up.
    • (Francis Bacon)
    (Webster 1913) ----