[f. prec.; cf. F. azurer (Cotgr.).] To paint, dye, or color azure or bright blue. Hence Azuring vbl. sb.
1490–1587. [see AZURED].
1656. W. Montague, Accompl. Wom., 118. We azure wainscots, paint images, guild swords.
1791. Hamilton, Berthollet’s Dyeing, I. I. II. i. The silks are … azured with river-water.
1833. Blackw. Mag., XXXIV. 540. She saffrons the hills, and azures the mountains.
1869. Eng. Mech., 2 July, 340/2. Large quantities of aniline colours have been employed by paper manufacturers for the colouring of their paper pulp, or for the azuring of the surface of the paper after its final manufacture.
