Definition of hue

"hue" in the noun sense

1. hue, chromaticity

the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength

"hue" in the verb sense

1. hue

take on color or become colored

"In highlights it hued to a dull silver-grey"

2. imbue, hue

suffuse with color

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Quotations for hue

The scarlet hue of modesty. [ Latena ]

Black will take no other hue. [ Proverb ]

Let him that can play take the hue. [ Proverb ]

No tree in all the grove but has its charm
Though each its hue peculiar. [ Cowper ]

'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue. [ Thomas Campbell ]

Is there a crime
Beneath the roof of heaven, that stains the soul
Of man, with more infernal hue, than damn'd
Assassination? [ Cibber ]

Whither away, Bluebird, Whither away?
The blast is chill, yet in the upper sky,
Thou still canst find the color of thy wing.
The hue of May.
Warbler, why speed thy southern flight? ah, why,
Thou too, whose song first told us of the Spring?
Whither away? [ E. C. Stedman ]

A smile that elow'd Celestial rosy red, love's proper hue. [ Milton ]

The native hue of resolution is sicklied over with the pale cast of thought. [ William Shakespeare ]

Experience, that chill touchstone whose sad proof reduces all things from their hue. [ Byron ]

Your fame is as the grass, whose hue comes and goes, and His might withers it by whose power it sprang from the lap of the earth. [ Dante ]

O jealousy, thou ugliest fiend of hell! thy deadly venom preys on my vitals, turns the healthful hue of my fresh cheek to haggard sallowness, and drinks my spirit up. [ Hannah More ]

The brain is the palest of all the internal organs, and the heart the reddest. Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace. [ Holmes ]

To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, to throw a perfume on the violet, to smooth the ice, or add another hue unto the rainbow, or with taper-light to seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, is wasteful and ridiculous excess. [ William Shakespeare ]

hue in Scrabble®

The word hue is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

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The 41 Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays For Words Using The Letters In hue

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hue in Words With Friends™

The word hue is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words within the letters of hue

2 letter words in hue (3 words)

3 letter words in hue (1 word)

hue + 1 blank (3 words)

hue + 2 blanks (5 words)

Words containing the sequence hue

Words that start with hue (4 words)

Words with hue in them (2 words)

Words that end with hue (1 word)

Word Growth involving hue

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Longer words containing hue

hued manyhued

hueless

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