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.
- 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. - 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. - Black friar
A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine. - Snakehead
A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car. - Black-letter
Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. - Stateswomen
of Stateswoman
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