Word Meanings - BLACKSNAKEBLACKSNAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Note: The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica.

• 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.
• Sevennight
  A week; any period of seven consecutive days and nights. See Sennight.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• Snakefish
  The band fish.
• 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.
• Statesmanship
  The qualifications, duties, or employments of a statesman.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Uniterable
  Not iterable; incapable of being repeated.
• Colored
  of Color
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Color sergeant
  See under Sergeant.
• BLACKMONK
  A Benedictine monk.
• Common sense
  See Common sense, under Sense.
• OTHERWHILEOTHERWHILES
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; [Archaic] Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
• Applique
  Ornamented with a pattern (which has been cut out of another color or stuff) applied or transferred to a foundation; as, applique lace; applique work.
• Jamaica
  One of the West India is islands.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• Sevenscore
  Seven times twenty, that is, a hundred and forty.
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.

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