BPage 164
- English Word Blacking Definition of Black
- English Word Blacking Definition Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
- English Word Blacking Definition The act or process of making black.
- English Word Blackish Definition Somewhat black.
- English Word Blacklead Definition To coat or to polish with black lead.
- English Word Blackleg Definition A notorious gambler.
- English Word Blackleg Definition A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.
- English Word Blacklist Definition To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.
- English Word Blackly Definition In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.
- English Word Blackmail Definition A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
- English Word Blackmail Definition Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
- English Word Blackmail Definition Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
- English Word Blackmail Definition To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
- English Word Blackmailed Definition of Blackmail
- English Word Blackmailer Definition One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
- English Word Blackmailing Definition of Blackmail
- English Word Blackmailing Definition The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
- English Word Blackmoor Definition See Blackamoor.
- English Word Blackness Definition The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
- English Word Blackpoll Definition A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).
- English Word Blackroot Definition See Colicroot.
- English Word Blacks Definition The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
- English Word Blacks Definition Soot flying in the air.
- English Word Blacks Definition Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
- English Word Blacksalter Definition One who makes crude potash, or black salts.
- English Word Blacksmith Definition A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
- English Word Blacksmith Definition A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
- English Word Blacksnake Definition A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
- English Word Blackstrap Definition A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
- English Word Blackstrap Definition Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.