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Blee vs Spar - What's the difference?

blee | spar |

As nouns the difference between blee and spar

is that blee is (rare|usually|poetic) colour, hue while spar is claw.

blee

English

Noun

  • (rare, usually, poetic) Colour, hue.
  • * 1931 , Padraic Colum, "Before The Fair" in Lascelles Abercrombie, New English poems: a miscellany of contemporary verse never before published:
  • [...] "Live," "live," and "Here," "here," the blackbird / From the top of the bare ash-tree,/ Over the acres whistles / With beak of yellow blee . [...]
  • * 1920 , Anonymous, "To Marie" in Carolyn Wells, The Book of Humorous Verse :
  • *:When the breeze from the bluebottle's blustering blim/Twirls the toads in a tooroomaloo,/And the whiskery whine of the wheedlesome whim/Drowns the roll of the rattatattoo,/Then I dream in the shade of the shally-go-shee,/And the voice of the bally-molay/Brings the smell of stale poppy-cods blummered in blee /From the willy-wad over the way. [...]
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , vol. 1:
  • *:[...] Thereupon sat a lady bright of blee , with brow beaming brilliancy [...]
  • *1850 , Elizabeth Barrett Browning, The poems of Elizabeth Barrett Browning :
  • Then the captain, young Lord Leigh, with his eyes so grey of blee , — Toll slowly.
  • Complexion.
  • Form, texture, consistency.
  • * 1898 , Algernon Charles Swinburne, The heptalogia :
  • [...] I am thrilled half cosmically through by cryptophantic surgings / Till the rhythmic hills roar silent through a spongious kind of blee [...]
  • General resemblance, likeness; aspect, appearance, look.
  • * That boy has a strong blee of his father. — Robert Forby
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    spar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) . Perhaps also compare (l), (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A rafter of a roof.
  • A thick pole or piece of wood.
  • (obsolete) A bar of wood used to fasten a door.
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.11:
  • The Prince staid not his aunswere to devize, / But, opening streight the Sparre , forth to him came […].
  • (nautical) A general term denoting any linear object used as a mast, sprit, yard, boom, pole or gaff.
  • (aeronautics) A beam-like structural member that supports ribs in an aircraft wing or other airfoil.
  • Derived terms
    * spar buoy * spar deck * spar torpedo

    Verb

  • (obsolete, or, dialectal) to bolt, bar.
  • To supply or equip (a vessel) with spars.
  • Derived terms
    * oversparred, undersparred

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (sparr)
  • To fight, especially as practice for martial arts or hand-to-hand combat.
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=April 15 , author=Phil McNulty , title=Tottenham 1-5 Chelsea , work=BBC citation , page= , passage=After early sparring , Spurs started to take control as the interval approached and twice came close to taking the lead. Terry blocked Rafael van der Vaart's header on the line and the same player saw his cross strike the post after Adebayor was unable to apply a touch.}}
  • To strike with the feet or spurs, as cocks do.
  • To contest in words; to wrangle.
  • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) spar, .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mineralogy) any of various microcrystalline minerals, of light, translucent, or transparent blee, which are easily cleft
  • (mineralogy) any crystal with no readily discernible faces.
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