black : Idioms & Phrases

• noun brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear
  Euarctos americanus; American black bear; Ursus americanus.
  

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• noun black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
  bone char; animal black; animal charcoal.
  

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• noun a black grouse of western Asia
  Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi.
  

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• noun bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia
  Ursus thibetanus; Asiatic black bear; Selenarctos thibetanus.
  

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• a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; used for coating the better kinds of ironware. Ure.

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• the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts.

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• noun the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert
  Sub-Saharan Africa.
  

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• noun an African who is Black
  

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• noun an American whose ancestors were born in Africa
  Afro-American; African American; African-American.
  

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• the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. "To pinch the slatterns black and blue." Hudibras.

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• noun a widely distributed North American garden spider
  Argiope aurantia.
  

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• noun an English recruit (who wore a uniform that was black and tan) serving in the Irish constabulary to suppress the Sinn Fein rebellion of 1919 to 1921
  

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• black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; used in describing certain breeds of dogs.

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• noun communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)
  written communication; written language.
  
• noun a black-and-white photograph or slide
  monochrome.
  
• adjective not having or not capable of producing colors
  black and white.
  
  • black-and-white film
  • a black-and-white TV
  • the movie was in black and white

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• writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white.

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• (Zoöl.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida (Holacanthus tricolor), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black.

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• noun black hornless breed from Scotland
  Angus; Aberdeen Angus.
  

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• (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, Sb2S3, used in pyrotechnics, etc.

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• noun small hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruit
  Prunus dasycarpa; purple apricot.
  

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• noun ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
  black archangel; stinking horehound; Ballota nigra; fetid horehound.
  

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• noun the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
  black art; sorcery; necromancy.
  

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Black" art`

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1. The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic. ✍ This name was given in the Middle Ages to necromancy, under the idea that the latter term was derived from niger black, instead of nekro`s, a dead person, and mantei`a, divination. Wright.

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• noun vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood; leaves turn gold in autumn
  brown ash; basket ash; hoop ash; Fraxinus nigra.
  

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• noun small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black
  Phyllostachys nigra; kuri-chiku.
  

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• noun bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
  Centropistes striata; black bass.
  
• noun widely distributed and highly prized American freshwater game fishes (sunfish family)
  

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Black" bass`

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1. An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the largemouthed is M. salmoides.
2. The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.

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• noun erect shrub with small if any spines having racemes of white to yellow flowers followed by curved pointed pods and black shiny seeds; West Indies and Florida
  cat's-claw; Pithecellodium unguis-cati; catclaw.
  

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• noun black-seeded bean of South America; usually dried
  turtle bean.
  

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• noun bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia
  Ursus thibetanus; Asiatic black bear; Selenarctos thibetanus.
  
• noun brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear
  Euarctos americanus; American black bear; Ursus americanus.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common American bear (Ursus Americanus).

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• noun deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar
  Arctostaphylos alpina; alpine bearberry.
  

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• . See Bête noire.

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• noun dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin
  German bee.
  

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• noun New Zealand forest tree
  Nothofagus solanderi.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the common large cockroach (Blatta orientalis).

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• noun a person who attained the rank of expert in the martial arts (judo or karate)
  
• noun a black sash worn to show expert standards in the martial arts (judo or karate)
  

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• noun a humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy
  melancholy.
  

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• noun common European twining vine with tuberous roots and cordate leaves and red berries
  black bindweed; Tamus communis.
  

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• noun common birch of the eastern United States having spicy brown bark yielding a volatile oil and hard dark wood used for furniture
  cherry birch; sweet birch; Betula lenta.
  
• noun birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
  river birch; red birch; Betula nigra.
  

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• noun a hypothetical object capable of absorbing all the electromagnetic radiation falling on it
  blackbody; full radiator.
  
  • a black body maintained at a constant temperature is a full radiator at that temperature because the radiation reaching and leaving it must be in equilibrium

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• (Zoöl.), the black-headed bunting (Embriza Schoeniclus) of Europe.

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• noun a list of people who are out of favor
  blacklist; shitlist.
  

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Black" book`

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1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III. Bouvier. Wharton.
5. 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.
6. Any book which treats of necromancy.

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• noun equipment that records information about the performance of an aircraft during flight
  

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• noun bread made of coarse rye flour
  pumpernickel.
  

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• noun important dark-colored edible food and game fish of Australia
  Chrysophrys australis.
  

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• noun common European twining vine with tuberous roots and cordate leaves and red berries
  black bindweed; Tamus communis.
  

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• noun common Indian antelope with a dark back and spiral horns
  blackbuck; Antilope cervicapra.
  

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• noun fish of the lower Mississippi
  Ictiobus niger.
  

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• noun ornamental plant of Middle East cultivated for its dark purple spathe
  Arum palaestinum.
  

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• a disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar.

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• noun herb of the Mediterranean region having pungent seeds used like those of caraway
  nutmeg flower; Roman coriander; Nigella sativa.
  

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• noun a carpet beetle that is solid black in color
  

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• noun large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
  fisher cat; fisher; pekan; Martes pennanti.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See Fisher.

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• noun extract of the heartwood of Acacia catechu used for dyeing and tanning and preserving fishnets and sails; formerly used medicinally
  catechu.
  

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• any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in distinction from dairy cattle. Eng.

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• noun large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit
  Prunus serotina; rum cherry; black cherry.
  
• noun any of several fruits of cultivated cherry trees that have sweet flesh
  sweet cherry.
  

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• . See under Cherry.

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• noun large North American wild cherry with round black sour edible fruit
  Prunus serotina; rum cherry; black cherry.
  

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• noun male black grouse
  blackcock.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the palm cockatoo. See Cockatoo.

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• noun North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
  black cohosh; Cimicifuga racemosa; rattle-top.
  

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• noun comedy that uses black humor
  

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• . Same as Melaconite.

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• noun North American poplar with large rounded scalloped leaves and brownish bark and wood
  Populus heterophylla; swamp cottonwood; downy poplar; swamp poplar.
  
• noun cottonwood of western North America with dark green leaves shining above and rusty or silvery beneath
  Populus trichocarpa; Western balsam poplar.
  

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• noun a crappie that is black
  Pomoxis nigromaculatus.
  

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• noun widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries
  Ribes nigrum; black currant.
  
• noun small black berries used in jams and jellies
  

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• . (Bot.) See Currant.

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• noun Australian tree with small flattened scales as leaves and numerous dark brown seed; valued for its timber and resin
  Callitris endlicheri; red cypress pine; Callitris calcarata.
  

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• noun the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
  Black Death.
  

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Black" death`

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1. A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.

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• noun an inferior dark diamond used in industry for drilling and polishing
  carbonado.
  

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• . (Min.) See Carbonado.

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• noun a disease of the liver (especially in sheep and cattle) caused by liver flukes and their by-products
  liver rot; distomatosis; sheep rot.
  

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• (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia.

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• (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar.

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• noun a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada
  Anas rubripes.
  

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• mold; earth of a dark color. Woodward.

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• noun a hidden sector of the economy where private cash transactions go unreported
  
  • no one knows how large the black economy really is

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• noun a common shrub with black fruit or a small tree of Europe and Asia; fruit used for wines and jellies
  bourtree; elderberry; common elder; European elder; Sambucus nigra.
  

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• noun common elder of central and eastern North America bearing purple-black berries; fruit used in wines and jellies
  American elder; sweet elder; Sambucus canadensis.
  

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• noun a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
  Black English Vernacular; African American Vernacular English; Black Vernacular; African American English; AAVE; Ebonics; Black English.
  

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• noun a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
  Black English Vernacular; African American Vernacular English; Black Vernacular; African American English; AAVE; Ebonics; Black English.
  

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• noun a swollen bruise caused by a blow to the eye
  shiner; mouse.
  
• noun a bad reputation
  
  • his behavior gave the whole family a black eye
• noun an unfortunate happening that hinders or impedes; something that is thwarting or frustrating
  blow; setback; reverse; reversal.
  

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• noun a common name for a variety of Sarcosomataceae
  

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• noun a flag usually bearing a white skull and crossbones on a black background; indicates a pirate ship
  Jolly Roger; blackjack; pirate flag.
  

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• the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance.

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• (Zoöl.), a flea beetle (Haltica nemorum) injurious to turnips.

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• a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter. Brande & C.

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• noun small blackish stout-bodied biting fly having aquatic larvae; sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals
  blackfly; buffalo gnat.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) (a) In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged fly of the genus Simulium of several species, exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests. The larvæ are aquatic. (b) A black plant louse, as the bean aphis (A. fabæ).

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• noun a hilly forest region in southwestern Germany
  Schwarzwald.
  

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• a translation of G. Schwarzwald, a forest in Baden and Würtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest.

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• noun red fox in the color phase when its pelt is mostly black
  

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• noun a Roman Catholic friar wearing the black mantle of the Dominican order
  Blackfriar; Dominican; friar preacher.
  

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Black" fri`ar

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1. (Eccl.) A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

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• noun herb of southwestern United States having dark purple bell-shaped flowers mottled with green
  mission bells; Fritillaria biflora.
  

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• . (Zoöl.) See Blackcock, Grouse, and Heath grouse.

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• noun a pasture grass (especially of western coastal regions of North America)
  Bouteloua eriopoda.
  

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• (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species Juncus Gerardi, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay.
• a kind of small rush (Juncus Gerardi), growing in salt marshes, used for making salt hay.

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• noun low hardy much-branched spiny shrub common in alkaline soils of western America
  greasewood; Sarcobatus vermiculatus.
  

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• noun grouse of which the male is bluish-black
  

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• noun northern Atlantic guillemot
  Cepphus grylle.
  

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• noun columnar tree of eastern North America having horizontal limbs and small leaves that emerge late in spring and have brilliant color in early fall
  pepperidge; Nyssa sylvatica; sour gum.
  
• noun a small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum
  black mallee; black gum; Eucalytus stellulata.
  

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• (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or pepperidge. See Tupelo.

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• (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of dark purple or "black" grape.

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• noun a secret terrorist society in the United States early in the 20th century
  

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• noun deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico
  shittimwood; false buckthorn; chittamwood; chittimwood; Bumelia lanuginosa.
  
• noun upright deciduous shrub having frosted dark-blue fruit; east and east central North America
  Viburnum prunifolium.
  

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• noun Sauk leader who in 1832 led Fox and Sauk warriors against the United States (1767-1838)
  Makataimeshekiakiak.
  

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• noun slightly hairy perennial having deep green leathery leaves and flowers that are ultimately purplish-green
  lenten rose; Helleborus orientalis.
  
• noun European evergreen plant with white or purplish rose-like winter-blooming flowers
  Christmas rose; Helleborus niger; winter rose.
  

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• noun large evergreen of western United States; wood much harder than Canadian hemlock
  Tsuga mertensiana; mountain hemlock.
  

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• noun poisonous fetid Old World herb having sticky hairy leaves and yellow-brown flowers; yields hyoscyamine and scopolamine
  henbane; stinking nightshade; Hyoscyamus niger.
  

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• noun smooth-barked North American hickory with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut
  Carya tomentosa; white-heart hickory; big-bud hickory; mockernut; mockernut hickory.
  
• noun an American hickory tree having bitter nuts
  pignut; Carya glabra; brown hickory; pignut hickory.
  
• noun North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
  black hickory; black walnut; Juglans nigra.
  

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• noun mountains in southwestern South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming; sacred to the Sioux (whites settling in the Black Hills led to the Battle of Little Bighorn); site of Mount Rushmore
  
• noun mountains in western South Dakota and northeastern Wyoming
  

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• noun a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star; extremely high gravitational field
  

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Black" hole`

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1. 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.

   A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the black hole. H. Spencer.

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• noun a dungeon (20 feet square) in a fort in Calcutta where as many as 146 English prisoners were held overnight by Siraj-ud-daula; the next morning only 23 were still alive
  

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• noun Old World willow with light green leaves cultivated for use in basketry
  Salix triandra; almond willow; Salix amygdalina.
  

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• noun ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
  black archangel; stinking horehound; Ballota nigra; fetid horehound.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a fish of the Mississippi valley (Cycleptus elongatus), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker.

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• noun low shrub of the eastern United States bearing shiny black edible fruit; best known of the huckleberries
  Gaylussacia baccata.
  

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• noun the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect
  black humor.
  

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• noun the juxtaposition of morbid and farcical elements (in writing or drama) to give a disturbing effect
  black humor.
  

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• noun a thin coating of ice (as from freezing mist) on a road or sidewalk; nearly invisible but very hazardous
  

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• noun United States general who commanded the American forces in Europe during World War I (1860-1948)
  Pershing; John Joseph Pershing.
  

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• noun dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion
  Milvus migrans.
  

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• noun a weedy perennial with tough wiry stems and purple flowers; native to Europe but widely naturalized
  hardheads; Centaurea nigra; lesser knapweed.
  

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• noun disease of plum and cherry trees characterized by black excrescences on the branches
  

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• noun medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark
  Larix laricina; American larch; tamarack.
  

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• noun used as a lubricant and as a moderator in nuclear reactors
  plumbago; graphite.
  

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Black` lead"

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1. Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.

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• (Zoöl.), the Lemurniger of Madagascar; the acoumbo of the natives.

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• noun a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries
  Gothic.
  

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Black" let`ter

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1. 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.

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• a list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See Blacklist, v. t.

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• noun strong stiff wood of a black-locust tree; very resistant to decay
  
• noun large thorny tree of eastern and central United States having pinnately compound leaves and drooping racemes of white flowers; widely naturalized in many varieties in temperate regions
  yellow locust; Robinia pseudoacacia.
  

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• noun a mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores
  blackwash.
  

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• noun European herb somewhat resembling celery widely naturalized in Britain coastal regions and often cultivated as a potherb
  Smyrnium olusatrum; Alexanders; horse parsley; Alexander.
  

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• noun lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
  anthracosis; coal miner's lung; black lung.
  

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• noun lung disease caused by inhaling coal dust
  anthracosis; coal miner's lung; black lung.
  

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• noun the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
  black art; sorcery; necromancy.
  

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• noun northern Zealand tree having dense hard light-brown wood
  Olea cunninghamii.
  

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• noun a small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum
  black mallee; black gum; Eucalytus stellulata.
  

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• noun a highly venomous southern African mamba dreaded because of its quickness and readiness to bite
  Dendroaspis augusticeps.
  

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• noun a man who is Black
  

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• (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese, MnO2.

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• noun an Australian tree resembling the black mangrove of the West Indies and Florida
  Aegiceras majus.
  
• noun a mangrove of the West Indies and the southern Florida coast; occurs in dense thickets and has numerous short roots that bend up from the ground
  Avicennia marina.
  

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• noun dusky grey food fish found from Louisiana and Florida southward
  Anisotremus surinamensis; pompon.
  

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• noun van used by police to transport prisoners
  wagon; police van; paddy wagon; police wagon; patrol wagon.
  
• noun a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades
  hearts.
  

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• the close wagon in which prisoners are carried to or from jail.

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• noun people who engage in illicit trade
  
• noun an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls
  
• verb deal in illegally, such as arms or liquor
  run.
  

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• noun someone who engages illegally in trade in scarce or controlled commodities
  
• verb deal on the black market
  

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• noun large game fish in the Pacific Ocean; may reach 1000 pounds
  Makaira marlina; Makaira mazara.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the chimney swift. See Swift.

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• noun prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America
  yellow trefoil; hop clover; nonesuch clover; Medicago lupulina.
  

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Black" Mon`day

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1. 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. Stow.

   Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak.

2. The first Monday after the holidays; -- so called by English schoolboys. Halliwell.

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Black" monk`

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1. A Benedictine monk.

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• noun a morel whose pitted fertile body is attached to the stalk with little free skirt around it; the fertile body is grey when young and black in old age
  Morchella conica; conic morel; narrowhead morel; Morchella angusticeps.
  

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• noun dense festoons of greenish-grey hairlike flexuous strands anchored to tree trunks and branches by sparse wiry roots; southeastern United States and West Indies to South America
  old man's beard; Spanish moss; long moss; Tillandsia usneoides.
  

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• (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See Tillandsia.

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• noun European mulberry having dark foliage and fruit
  Morus nigra.
  

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• noun music created by African-American musicians; early forms were songs that had a melodic line and a strong rhythmic beat with repeated choruses
  African-American music.
  

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• noun an activist member of a largely American group of Blacks called the Nation of Islam
  

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• noun widespread Eurasian annual plant cultivated for its pungent seeds; a principal source of table mustard
  Brassica nigra.
  

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• noun Eurasian herb naturalized in America having white flowers and poisonous hairy foliage and bearing black berries that are sometimes poisonous but sometimes edible
  poisonberry; Solanum nigrum; common nightshade; poison-berry.
  

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• noun medium to large deciduous timber tree of the eastern United States and southeastern Canada having dark outer bark and yellow inner bark used for tanning; broad five-lobed leaves are bristle-tipped
  quercitron; yellow oak; quercitron oak; Quercus velutina.
  

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• . See under Oak.

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• . See Wad.

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• noun olives picked ripe and cured in brine then dried or pickled or preserved canned or in oil
  ripe olive.
  

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• noun a dark colored opal with internal reflections of green or red
  

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• noun a covert operation not attributable to the organization carrying it out
  

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• verb obliterate or extinguish
  
  • Some life-forms were obliterated by the radiation, others survived
• verb darken completely
  blacken out.
  
  • The dining room blackened out
• verb suppress by censorship as for political reasons
  
  • parts of the newspaper article were blacked out
• verb lose consciousness due to a sudden trauma, for example
  zonk out; pass out.
  

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• noun a member of the Black Panthers political party
  Black Panther.
  

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• noun a militant Black political party founded in 1965 to end political dominance by Whites
  
• noun a member of the Black Panthers political party
  Black Panther.
  

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• noun perennial of Europe and North Africa; foliage turns black in drying
  Lathyrus niger.
  

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• noun climber having dark red berries (peppercorns) when fully ripe; southern India and Sri Lanka; naturalized in northern Burma and Assam
  pepper; common pepper; Piper nigrum; Madagascar pepper; white pepper.
  
• noun pepper that is ground from whole peppercorns with husks on
  

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• noun a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
  Negroid; blackamoor; Black; Negro.
  

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• a very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar.

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• noun conifer of Australia and New Zealand
  matai; Podocarpus spicata; Prumnopitys taxifolia.
  
• noun New Zealand conifer used for lumber; the dark wood is used for interior carpentry
  Podocarpus ferruginea; miro; Prumnopitys ferruginea.
  
• noun large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog
  Pinus thunbergii; black pine.
  
• noun tall symmetrical pine of western North America having long blue-green needles in bunches of 3 and elongated cones on spreading somewhat pendulous branches; sometimes classified as a variety of ponderosa pine
  Pinus jeffreyi; Jeffrey's pine; Jeffrey pine.
  
• noun large two-needled timber pine of southeastern Europe
  Pinus nigra.
  

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• noun the epidemic form of bubonic plague experienced during the Middle Ages when it killed nearly half the people of western Europe
  Black Death.
  

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• sheet iron before it is tinned. Knight.

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• noun large European poplar
  Populus nigra.
  

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• noun son of Edward III who defeated the French at Crecy and Poitiers in the Hundred Years' War (1330-1376)
  Edward.
  

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• noun a black sausage containing pig's blood and other ingredients
  blood sausage; blood pudding.
  

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Black" pud"ding

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1. A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.

   And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.

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• malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox.

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• noun a dark-skinned race
  Negroid race; Negro race.
  

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• noun blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
  blacksnake; Coluber constrictor.
  

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• noun raspberry native to eastern North America having black thimble-shaped fruit
  blackcap raspberry; blackcap; Rubus occidentalis; thimbleberry.
  

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• noun common household pest originally from Asia that has spread worldwide
  Rattus rattus; roof rat.
  

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• (Zoöl.), one of the species of rats (Mus rattus), commonly infesting houses.

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• noun large harmless shiny black North American snake
  blacksnake; mountain blacksnake; Elaphe obsoleta; pilot blacksnake.
  

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• . See Blackmail, n., 3.

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• noun African rhino; in danger of extinction
  Diceros bicornis.
  

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• noun a desert in northwestern Nevada
  

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• noun a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure
  bladderwrack; bladder fucus; Fucus vesiculosus; tang.
  

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Black" Rod`

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1. (Authority)(a) 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. Eng. (b) An usher in the legislature of British colonies. Cowell.

   Committed to the custody of the Black Rod. Macaulay.

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• noun fungus causing black root rot in apples
  Xylaria mali.
  

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• noun a fungous disease causing darkening and decay of the leaves of fruits and vegetables
  

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• noun blackish fish of New England waters
  barrelfish; Hyperglyphe perciformis.
  

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• a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain.

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• noun an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico
  California romero; Trichostema lanatum; wooly blue curls.
  

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• noun a small mallee with rough dark-colored bark toward the butt; yields a red eucalyptus kino gum
  black mallee; black gum; Eucalytus stellulata.
  

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• noun perennial south European herb having narrow entire leaves and solitary yellow flower heads and long black edible roots shaped like carrots
  scorzonera; Scorzonera hispanica; viper's grass.
  
• noun long black salsify
  scorzonera.
  

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Black" salts`

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1. Crude potash. De Colange.

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• noun a small fleshy herb common along North American seashores and in brackish marshes having pink or white flowers
  Glaux maritima; sea milkwort; sea trifoly.
  

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• noun a sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans
  Euxine Sea.
  

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• noun bluish black-striped sea bass of the Atlantic coast of the United States
  Centropistes striata; black bass.
  

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• noun a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries
  ANO; Abu Nidal Organization; Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims; Fatah Revolutionary Council; Fatah-RC; Arab Revolutionary Brigades.
  
  • in the 1980s the Fatah-RC was considered the most dangerous and murderous Palestinian terror group

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• noun a former Palestinian terrorist organization (now merged with Fatah Revolutionary Council) that assassinated the Prime Minister of Jordan and during the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich killed 11 Israeli athletes
  

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• noun a reckless and unprincipled reprobate
  scapegrace.
  
• noun sheep with a black coat
  

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• one in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble.

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• . (Min.) See under Silver.

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Black" snake`, Black"snake noun (Also<

• Black snake
• Blacksnake

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1. (Zoöl.) 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. ✍ The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica.

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• noun deciduous low-growing perennial of Canada and eastern and central United States
  Canada ginger; Asarum canadense.
  
• noun North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
  black cohosh; Cimicifuga racemosa; rattle-top.
  

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• noun spleenwort of Europe and Africa and Asia having pinnate fronds and yielding an astringent
  Asplenium adiantum-nigrum.
  

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• noun any of several fungous diseases of plants that produce small black spots on the plant
  

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• noun small spruce of boggy areas of northeastern North America having spreading branches with dense foliage; inferior wood
  spruce pine; Picea mariana.
  

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• noun fox squirrel or grey squirrel in the black color phase
  

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• noun Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below
  Ciconia nigra.
  

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• noun common nonpoisonous shrub of eastern North America with compound leaves and green paniculate flowers followed by red berries
  dwarf sumac; shining sumac; Rhus copallina; mountain sumac.
  

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• noun large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill
  Cygnus atratus.
  

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• noun a branch of the Tai languages
  Tai Dam.
  

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• noun fermented tea leaves
  

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• . See under Tea.

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• noun semiformal evening dress for men
  dinner jacket; tux; tuxedo.
  
• noun a black bow tie worn with a dinner jacket
  

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• (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand. Knight.

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• noun a benign side effect of some antibiotics; dark overgrowth of the papillae of the tongue
  hairy tongue; furry tongue.
  

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• noun a showy tree fern of New Zealand and Australia having a crown of pinnated fronds with whitish undersides
  silver tree fern; sago fern; Cyathea medullaris.
  

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• noun common turnstone of the Pacific coast of North America
  Arenaria-Melanocephala.
  

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• noun a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
  Black English Vernacular; African American Vernacular English; Black Vernacular; African American English; AAVE; Ebonics; Black English.
  

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• noun a nonstandard form of American English characteristically spoken by African Americans in the United States
  Black English Vernacular; African American Vernacular English; Black Vernacular; African American English; AAVE; Ebonics; Black English.
  

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• noun caused by a flavivirus transmitted by a mosquito
  yellow jack; yellow fever.
  

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Black" vom"it

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1. (Med.) A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

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• noun American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard
  Coragyps atratus; carrion crow.
  
• noun of southern Eurasia and northern Africa
  Aegypius monachus.
  

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• noun North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
  black hickory; black walnut; Juglans nigra.
  
• noun American walnut having a very hard and thick woody shell
  

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• . See under Walnut.

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• noun North American walnut tree with hard dark wood and edible nut
  black hickory; black walnut; Juglans nigra.
  

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• (Zoöl.), an American hawk (Buteo Harlani).

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Black" wash`, Black"wash noun (Also<

• Black wash
• Blackwash

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1. (Med.) A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
2. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.

   To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.

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• noun Australian tree that yields tanning materials
  Acacia auriculiformis.
  

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• noun brown weevil that infests stored grain especially rice
  Sitophylus oryzae; rice weevil.
  

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• noun small dark-colored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States; the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school
  common blackfish; blackfish; Globicephala melaena; pilot whale.
  
• noun large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil; also a source of ambergris
  Physeter catodon; sperm whale; cachalot.
  

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• noun venomous New World spider; the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen
  Latrodectus mactans.
  

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• noun North American shrubby willow having dark bark and linear leaves growing close to streams and lakes
  Salix nigra; swamp willow.
  

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• noun a woman who is Black
  

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Black"-a-vised` adjective

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1. Dark-visaged; swart.

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• adjective satellite discolored by coagulation of blood beneath the skin
  livid.
  
  • beaten black and blue
  • livid bruises

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• adjective satellite having a pattern of black and tan
  

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• noun American breed of large powerful hound dogs used for hunting raccoons and other game
  

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• noun a breed of short-haired rat terrier with a black-and-tan coat that was developed in Manchester, England
  Manchester terrier.
  

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• adjective lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black
  
  • a black-and-white cow
  • black-and-white blooms
  • black-and-white stripes
• adjective not having or not capable of producing colors
  black and white.
  
  • black-and-white film
  • a black-and-white TV
  • the movie was in black and white
• adjective satellite of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
  
  • he rejected a black-and-white world
  • there are no black-and-white certainties
  • there were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white

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• noun white gull having a black back and wings
  Larus marinus; black-backed gull; cob.
  

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• adjective satellite having a pattern consisting of black bars
  

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• noun North American cuckoo; builds a nest and rears its own young
  Coccyzus erythropthalmus.
  

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• noun the electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of a black body depends only on temperature and is determined by Planck's radiation law
  blackbody radiation.
  

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Black"-browed` adjective

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1. Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.

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• noun chickadee having a dark crown
  Parus atricapillus; blackcap.
  

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• adjective satellite coated with black
  

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• noun night heron of both Old and New Worlds
  Nycticorax nycticorax.
  

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Black"-eyed` adjective

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1. Having black eyes. Dryden.

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• noun fruit or seed of the cowpea plant
  cowpea.
  
• noun sprawling Old World annual cultivated especially in southern United States for food and forage and green manure
  Vigna sinensis; cowpea plant; Vigna unguiculata; cowpea.
  
• noun eaten fresh as shell beans or dried
  cowpea.
  

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• noun tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center
  black-eyed Susan; Thunbergia alata.
  
• noun annual weedy herb with ephemeral yellow purple-eyed flowers; Old World tropics; naturalized as a weed in North America
  bladder ketmia; flowers-of-an-hour; Hibiscus trionum; flower-of-an-hour.
  
• noun the state flower of Maryland; of central and southeastern United States; having daisylike flowers with dark centers and yellow to orange rays
  Rudbeckia hirta; Rudbeckia serotina.
  

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• noun tropical African climbing plant having yellow flowers with a dark purple center
  black-eyed Susan; Thunbergia alata.
  

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Black"-faced` adjective

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1. Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.

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• noun a variety of albatross with black feet
  Diomedea nigripes; goonie; gooney; gooney bird; goony.
  

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• noun musteline mammal of prairie regions of United States; nearly extinct
  ferret; Mustela nigripes.
  

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• noun a kind of bush shrike
  Chlorophoneus nigrifrons.
  

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• adjective satellite of dark grey
  blackish-gray; black-gray; blackish-grey.
  

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• adjective satellite of dark grey
  blackish-gray; black-gray; blackish-grey.
  

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• adjective satellite having hair of a dark color
  brown-haired; dark-haired.
  
  • a dark-haired beauty

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• noun small secretive ground-living snake; found from central United States to Argentina
  

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Black"-heart`ed adjective

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1. Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.

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Black"-jack` noun

Definitions

1. (Min.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. Obs.
4. (Bot.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
5. The ensign of a pirate.

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• noun parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England); northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick)
  Ixodes scapularis.
  

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Black"-let`ter adjective

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1. Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
2. Given to the study of books in black letter; that is, of old books; out of date.

   Kemble, a black-letter man! J. Boaden.

3. Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.

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• adjective satellite having black marks
  

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• adjective satellite distributed or sold illicitly
  contraband; bootleg; black; smuggled.
  
  • the black economy pays no taxes

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Black"-mouthed` adjective

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1. Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.

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• noun aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa; rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness
  Naja nigricollis; spitting cobra.
  

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• noun small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck; found in Eurasia and southern Africa as well as western United States
  eared grebe; Podiceps nigricollis.
  

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• noun stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck
  Himantopus mexicanus.
  

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• noun large mostly white Australian stork
  jabiru; policeman bird; Xenorhyncus asiaticus.
  

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• adjective satellite having black seeds
  

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• noun fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil
  black-stem spleenwort; little ebony spleenwort.
  

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• noun fern of tropical America: from southern United States to West Indies and Mexico to Brazil
  black-stem spleenwort; little ebony spleenwort.
  

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• noun mule deer of western Rocky Mountains
  Odocoileus hemionus columbianus; blacktail; blacktail deer.
  

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• adjective satellite moderately formal; requiring a dinner jacket
  semi-formal; semiformal.
  
  • he wore semiformal attire
  • a black-tie dinner

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• noun stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings
  Himantopus himantopus.
  

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• a pigment of a blue black color.
• of, or having, a very dark blue color, almost black.

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with blue
  blue-black.
  

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with blue
  blue-black.
  

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• noun black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
  bone char; animal black; animal charcoal.
  

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• (Chem.), the black, carbonaceous substance into which bones are converted by calcination in close vessels; called also animal charcoal. It is used as a decolorizing material in filtering sirups, extracts, etc., and as a black pigment. See Ivory black, under Black.

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with brown
  brown-black.
  

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with brown
  brown-black.
  

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Bruns"wick black`

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1. See Japan black.

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• noun large deciduous tree of the Pacific coast having deeply parted bristle-tipped leaves
  Quercus kelloggii.
  

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• noun medium-sized tree with somewhat aromatic compound leaves and edible nuts
  Juglans californica.
  

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• noun a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
  smut; soot; crock; lampblack.
  

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• the black pigment, consisting of burnt ivory, bone, cock, peach stones, and other substances.

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• noun edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
  Chinese black mushroom; shiitake mushroom; shiitake; Lentinus edodes; golden oak mushroom.
  

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• noun a very dark black
  jet black; sable; coal black; pitch black; ebony.
  

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• adjective satellite of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
  coal-black; sooty; jet; pitchy.
  

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Coal"-black adjective

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1. As black as coal; jet black; very black. Dryden.

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• noun medium-sized tree with brown-black bark and woody fruiting catkins; leaves are hairy beneath
  common alder; Alnus glutinosa; Alnus vulgaris.
  

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• noun widely cultivated current bearing edible black aromatic berries
  Ribes nigrum; black currant.
  

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• noun large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail
  heathfowl; Lyrurus tetrix.
  

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Frank"fort black`

Definitions

1. . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

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• an usher belonging to the Order of the Garter, whose chief duty is to serve as official messenger of the House of Lords.

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with grey
  grayish-black; gray-black; grey-black.
  

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with grey
  grayish-black; gray-black; grey-black.
  

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• noun white gull having a black back and wings
  Larus marinus; black-backed gull; cob.
  

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with grey
  grayish-black; gray-black; grey-black.
  

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with grey
  grayish-black; gray-black; grey-black.
  

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• adjective satellite of the color of black ink
  inky; ink-black.
  

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• adjective satellite of the color of black ink
  inky; ink-black.
  

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• noun a black pigment made from grinding burnt ivory in oil
  

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• a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing.

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• (Chem.), a quickly drying black lacquer or varnish, consisting essentially of asphaltum dissolved in naphtha or turpentine, and used for coating ironwork; called also Brunswick black, Japan lacquer, or simply Japan.

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• noun large Japanese ornamental having long needles in bunches of 2; widely planted in United States because of its resistance to salt and smog
  Pinus thunbergii; black pine.
  

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• noun a very dark black
  jet black; sable; coal black; pitch black; ebony.
  

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• adjective satellite of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
  coal-black; sooty; jet; pitchy.
  

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Jet"-black` adjective

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1. Black as jet; deep black.

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• noun British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
  Black.
  

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• noun a variety of black bass
  Micropterus pseudoplites; Kentucky black bass.
  

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• noun a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye
  largemouth; largemouth bass; largemouth black bass; largemouthed bass; Micropterus salmoides.
  

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• noun a large black bass; the angle of the jaw falls behind the eye
  largemouth; largemouth bass; largemouth black bass; largemouthed bass; Micropterus salmoides.
  

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• noun tiny glossy black ant; nests outdoors but invades houses for food
  Monomorium minimum.
  

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Mag"nase black`

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1. (Paint.) A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.

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• noun Mexican black cherry
  capulin.
  

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• noun edible east Asian mushroom having a golden or dark brown to blackish cap and an inedible stipe
  Chinese black mushroom; shiitake mushroom; shiitake; Lentinus edodes; golden oak mushroom.
  

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• noun a very dark black
  jet black; sable; coal black; pitch black; ebony.
  

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• adjective satellite extremely dark
  pitch-dark; black.
  
  • a black moonless night
  • through the pitch-black woods
  • it was pitch-dark in the cellar

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Pitch"-black` adjective

Definitions

1. Black as pitch or tar.

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• noun a fine black powder of platinum; used as a catalyst in chemical reactions
  

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• (Chem.), a soft, dull black powder, consisting of finely divided metallic platinum obtained by reduction and precipitation from its solutions. It absorbs oxygen to a high degree, and is employed as an oxidizer.

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with purple
  purple-black.
  

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with purple
  purple-black.
  

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• noun popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
  Shirley Temple; Black.
  

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• noun large showy Asiatic shrub or small tree having large single or double red to deep-red flowers
  Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; shoeblack plant; Chinese hibiscus; China rose; Rose of China.
  

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• adjective satellite of a black tinged with slate-grey
  

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• noun a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye
  smallmouth; smallmouth bass; smallmouth black bass; smallmouthed bass; Micropterus dolomieu.
  

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• noun a variety of black bass; the angle of the jaw falls below the eye
  smallmouth; smallmouth bass; smallmouth black bass; smallmouthed bass; Micropterus dolomieu.
  

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• lampblack. Obs.

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• noun a very dark black
  jet black; sable; coal black; pitch black; ebony.
  

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• adjective satellite of the black color of soot
  soot-black.
  

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• adjective satellite of the black color of soot
  soot-black.
  

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• a black pigment obtained by charring cork. Ure.

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• noun a variety of black bass
  Micropterus pseudoplites; Kentucky black bass.
  

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• to be unfortunate; to know what sorrow is (because black oxen were sacrificed to Pluto). Leigh Hunt.

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• to frown; to scowl; to have a threatening appearance.

  The bishops thereat repined, and looked black. Holinshed.

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• adjective satellite of black tinged with violet
  

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• noun a breed of dual-purpose cattle developed in Wales
  Welsh.
  

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• noun a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans; principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California
  Ixodes pacificus.
  

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