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- English Word Black Definition Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
- English Word Black Definition The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
- English Word Black Definition A stain; a spot; a smooch.
- English Word Black Definition To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
- English Word Black Definition To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
- English Word Black art Definition The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.
- English Word Black bass Definition An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides.
- English Word Black bass Definition The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.
- English Word Black book Definition One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.
- English Word Black book Definition A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.
- English Word Black book Definition A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.
- English Word Black book Definition A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III.
- English Word Black book Definition A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.
- English Word Black book Definition Any book which treats of necromancy.
- English Word Black death Definition A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
- English Word Black friar Definition A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
- English Word Black hole Definition A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
- English Word Black lead Definition Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
- English Word Black letter Definition The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
- English Word Black Monday Definition Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold.
- English Word Black Monday Definition The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys.
- English Word Black monk Definition A Benedictine monk.
- English Word Black pudding Definition A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.
- English Word Black Rod Definition the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords.
- English Word Black Rod Definition An usher in the legislature of British colonies.
- English Word Black salts Definition Crude potash.
- English Word Black snake Definition Alt. of Blacksnake
- English Word Black vomit Definition A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
- English Word Black wash Definition Alt. of Blackwash
- English Word Black-a-vised Definition Dark-visaged; swart.