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- English Word Blackcock Definition The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.
- English Word Blacked Definition of Black
- English Word Blacken Definition To make or render black.
- English Word Blacken Definition To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
- English Word Blacken Definition To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
- English Word Blacken Definition To grow black or dark.
- English Word Blackened Definition of Blacken
- English Word Blackener Definition One who blackens.
- English Word Blackening Definition of Blacken
- English Word Blackfeet Definition A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
- English Word Blackfin Definition See Bluefin.
- English Word Blackfish Definition A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
- English Word Blackfish Definition The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
- English Word Blackfish Definition The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.
- English Word Blackfish Definition A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.
- English Word Blackfish Definition The female salmon in the spawning season.
- English Word Blackfoot Definition Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
- English Word Blackfoot Definition A Blackfoot Indian.
- English Word Blackguard Definition The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
- English Word Blackguard Definition The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
- English Word Blackguard Definition A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
- English Word Blackguard Definition A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
- English Word Blackguard Definition To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
- English Word Blackguard Definition Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
- English Word Blackguarded Definition of Blackguard
- English Word Blackguarding Definition of Blackguard
- English Word Blackguardism Definition The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism.
- English Word Blackguardly Definition In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.
- English Word Blackhead Definition The scaup duck.
- English Word Blackheart Definition A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.