blue-pencil

2 definitions found

blue-pencil - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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]

blue-pencil - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  blue-pencil
      v 1: cut or eliminate; "she edited the juiciest scenes" [syn:
           edit, blue-pencil, delete]