These are the meanings of the letters BUCLE when you unscramble them.
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Blue (superl.)
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.
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Blue (superl.)
Pale, without redness or glare, -- said of a flame; hence, of the color of burning brimstone, betokening the presence of ghosts or devils; as, the candle burns blue; the air was blue with oaths.
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Blue (superl.)
Low in spirits; melancholy; as, to feel blue.
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Blue (superl.)
Suited to produce low spirits; gloomy in prospect; as, thongs looked blue.
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Blue (superl.)
Severe or over strict in morals; gloom; as, blue and sour religionists; suiting one who is over strict in morals; inculcating an impracticable, severe, or gloomy mortality; as, blue laws.
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Blue (superl.)
Literary; -- applied to women; -- an abbreviation of bluestocking.
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Blue (n.)
One of the seven colors into which the rays of light divide themselves, when refracted through a glass prism; the color of the clear sky, or a color resembling that, whether lighter or darker; a pigment having such color. Sometimes, poetically, the sky.
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Blue (n.)
A pedantic woman; a bluestocking.
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Blue (pl.)
Low spirits; a fit of despondency; melancholy.
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Blue (v. t.)
To make blue; to dye of a blue color; to make blue by heating, as metals, etc.
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Club (n.)
A heavy staff of wood, usually tapering, and wielded the hand; a weapon; a cudgel.
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Club (n.)
Any card of the suit of cards having a figure like the trefoil or clover leaf. (pl.) The suit of cards having such figure.
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Club (n.)
An association of persons for the promotion of some common object, as literature, science, politics, good fellowship, etc.; esp. an association supported by equal assessments or contributions of the members.
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Club (n.)
A joint charge of expense, or any person's share of it; a contribution to a common fund.
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Club (v. t.)
To beat with a club.
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Club (v. t.)
To throw, or allow to fall, into confusion.
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Club (v. t.)
To unite, or contribute, for the accomplishment of a common end; as, to club exertions.
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Club (v. t.)
To raise, or defray, by a proportional assesment; as, to club the expense.
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Club (v. i.)
To form a club; to combine for the promotion of some common object; to unite.
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Club (v. i.)
To pay on equal or proportionate share of a common charge or expense; to pay for something by contribution.
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Club (v. i.)
To drift in a current with an anchor out.
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Clue (n.)
A ball of thread, yarn, or cord; also, The thread itself.
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Clue (n.)
That which guides or directs one in anything of a doubtful or intricate nature; that which gives a hint in the solution of a mystery.
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Clue (n.)
A lower corner of a square sail, or the after corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
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Clue (n.)
A loop and thimbles at the corner of a sail.
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Clue (n.)
A combination of lines or nettles by which a hammock is suspended.
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Clue (n.)
A ball of thread; a thread or other means of guidance. Same as Clew.
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Cube (n.)
A regular solid body, with six equal square sides.
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Cube (n.)
The product obtained by taking a number or quantity three times as a factor; as, 4x4=16, and 16x4=64, the cube of 4.
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Cube (v. t.)
To raise to the third power; to obtain the cube of.
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Luce (n.)
A pike when full grown.