Word Meanings - BLACKWASHBLACKWASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

• WATERLAID
  Having a left-hand twist; -- said of cordage; as, a water-laid, or left-hand, rope.
• Water barometer
  A barometer in which the changes of atmospheric pressure are indicated by the motion of a column of water instead of mercury. It requires a column of water about thirty-three feet in height.
• Water measure
  A measure formerly used for articles brought by water, as coals, oysters, etc. The water-measure bushel was three gallons larger than the Winchester bushel.
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• WATERMILFOIL
  Any plant of the genus Myriophyllum, aquatic herbs with whorled leaves, the submersed ones pinnately parted into capillary divisions.
• Water brash
  See under Brash.
• Water oat
  Indian rice. See under Rice.
• BLACKMONK
  A Benedictine monk.
• 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.
• WATERPARTING
  A summit from the opposite sides of which rain waters flow to different streams; a line separating the drainage districts of two streams or coasts; a divide.
• Water chestnut
  The fruit of Trapa natans and Trapa bicornis, Old World water plants bearing edible nutlike fruits armed with several hard and sharp points; also, the plant itself; -- called also water caltrop.
• Water plant
  A plant that grows in water; an aquatic plant.
• WATERBACK
  See under 1st Back.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• WATERPOX
  A variety of chicken pox, or varicella. Dunglison.
• Water crowfoot
  An aquatic kind of buttercup (Ranunculus aquatilis), used as food for cattle in parts of England.
• Water rail
  Any one of numerous species of rails of the genus Rallus, as the common European species (Rallus aquaticus). See Illust. of Rail.
• WATERBRAIN
  A disease of sheep; gid.
• Calumny
  False accusation of a crime or offense, maliciously made or reported, to the injury of another; malicious misrepresentation; slander; detraction.

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