Word Meanings - BLACKART - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic. Note: 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.

• Personated
  of Personate
• Underlay
  To lay beneath; to put under.
• Undertreasurer
  An assistant treasurer.
• Black book
  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.
• Practical
  Of or pertaining to practice or action.
• Undermatch
  One who is not a match for another.
• Underwork
  To injure by working secretly; to destroy or overthrow by clandestine measure; to undermine.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• Underagent
  A subordinate agent.
• Underpay
  To pay inadequately.
• BLACKBURNIANWARBLER
  A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
• Black letter
  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.
• Undercast
  To cast under or beneath.
• Underproof
  Containing less alcohol than proof spirit. See Proof spirit, under Spirit.
• BLACKSALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Undercry
  To cry aloud.
• Undersell
  To sell the same articles at a lower price than; to sell cheaper than.
• UNDERGROUNDINSURANCE
  Wildcat insurance.
• Derivable
  That can be derived; obtainable by transmission; capable of being known by inference, as from premises or data; capable of being traced, as from a radical; as, income is derivable from various sources.

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