This makes the very best quality of bluing at a slight cost.
Bluing and starch are absorbed by lace and delicate fabrics to an unusual degree, therefore if you wish to use either for curtains, use very small quantities.
Two or three squeezes of a bluing ball, or a teaspoonful of liquid bluing is often a sufficient quantity for a tub of water.
The purpose of bluing is to give white clothes a bluish tinge instead of the yellowish tinge they are apt to acquire.
Put bluing into water enough to cover the cloth well until it looks almost black.
Lift from this bluing water directly to the line without wringing and let hang until almost dry, then press on the wrong side on an entirely smooth ironing sheet.
It had stopped raining for the time being; the dingy sky showed broken spots like bits of bluing on a badly-rusted piece of steel.
There were several of the commoner percussion models, however, with lovely, perfect bluing that was considerably darker than that applied at the Colt factory during the 'fifties and 'sixties of the last century.
Splash did look funny, all striped with bluing as he was.
I'll mix you up some starch and water, with a little bluing in, that will easily wash off," promised Mother Brown.
Important as the bluing or coloring is, however, it is only one of the numerous operations or manipulations that take place in the beater.
This accident brought about another result which was to prove of inestimable value to the future paper-maker--the use of bluing in paper when especial whiteness is desired.
Nagniwniw kug anyil sa túbig, I’m swishing bluing about in the water.
Sometimes a plate is required to be heated to a high temperature in one confined spot, and, as an example of this, I may take the bluing of the hands of watches.
For the bluing of clock hands, a larger and more equally heated surface is required, and this can be obtained by a small powerful burner without a blast of air, using a rather thicker plate to equalize the heat.
Some kinds of wood are more susceptible to bluing than others.
However, millmen do not experience much difficulty in preventing the bluing of the lumber.
The bluing of wood is an incipient decay and is generally due to fungus.
Bluing is apt to affect the green wood if unduly exposed.
Though boards may quickly season sufficiently to put a stop to the bluing process before it has actually weakened the material, the result is more or less injurious.
When a pure white is desired, add a little bluing to the starch water.
Mrs. Biggs exclaimed, still flourishing Tim's shirt, which she finally dropped back into the tub, and in her excitement came near sitting down in a pail of bluing water instead of a chair.
Leaving her clothes in the suds, and her tubs of rinsing and bluing water upon the floor, she started for the Crompton House, which she reached breathless with haste and excitement, and eager to congratulate Amy and Eloise.
By the side of it sat a tub for rinsing water and next to that a tub for bluing water.
She turned and mechanically looked around on the floor; seeing nothing, however, but the small tub of bluing water, she threw that in Virginie's face.
She never burned her clothes or ironed off the buttons or tore them, but she did use a trifle too much bluing and made her shirts too stiff.
She knew the mistress of the establishment, a delicate woman who sat in a cabinet with glass doors, surrounded by soap and bluing and packages of bicarbonate of soda.
She was now preparing her bluing water in a small tub standing on three legs.
This piece of metal, when nicely fitted into a file handle, will answer all the purposes of the bluing pan and presents quite a neat appearance.
Add the bluingsolution to clean water to the desired shade, shake each piece, put it through the water, and wring out at once.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bluing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
