BPage 162
- English Word Black-browed Definition Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
- English Word Black-eyed Definition Having black eyes.
- English Word Black-faced Definition Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
- English Word Black-hearted Definition Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
- English Word Black-jack Definition A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
- English Word Black-jack Definition Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
- English Word Black-jack Definition A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
- English Word Black-jack Definition The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
- English Word Black-jack Definition The ensign of a pirate.
- English Word Black-letter Definition Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
- English Word Black-letter Definition Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date.
- English Word Black-letter Definition Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.
- English Word Black-mouthed Definition Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
- English Word Blackamoor Definition A negro or negress.
- English Word Blackball Definition A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
- English Word Blackball Definition A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
- English Word Blackball Definition To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.
- English Word Blackball Definition To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.
- English Word Blackballed Definition of Blackball
- English Word Blackballing Definition of Blackball
- English Word Blackband Definition An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.
- English Word Blackberry Definition The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.
- English Word Blackbird Definition In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.
- English Word Blackboard Definition A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.
- English Word Blackburnian warbler Definition A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
- English Word Blackcap Definition A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
- English Word Blackcap Definition An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
- English Word Blackcap Definition An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
- English Word Blackcap Definition The black raspberry.
- English Word Blackcoat Definition A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.