Blue-pencil

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bluenoser \Blue"nos`er\); a Nova Scotian potato, etc.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.] blue-pencil \blue-pencil\ v. t.
     to change, delete, or abridge (a portion of a text) with a
     blue pencil (or as if with a blue pencil), as in the editing
     process; -- of books, etc.
     [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blue-pencil
       v : cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn: {edit},
            {delete}]
       [also: {blue-pencilling}, {blue-pencilled}]