English English Dictionary

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).

See Colicroot.

Soot flying in the air.

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.

Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

One who makes crude potash, or black salts.

A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

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.

A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.

Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.

A fish; the ruff or pope.

The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.

A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.

A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.