Word Meanings - BROWNBILL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A bill or halberd of the 16th and 17th centuries. See 4th Bill. Many time, but for a sallet, my brainpan had been cleft with a brown bill. Shak. Note: The black, or as it is sometimes called, the brown bill, was a kind of halberd, the cutting part hooked like a woodman's bill, from the back of which projected a spike, and another from the head. Grose.
- Hookey
See Hockey. - Black-jack
A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende. - Spiked
of Spike - Blackness
The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. - BLACKBROWED
Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden. - Blackwash
A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water. - BLACKPUDDING
A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras. - Brown thrush
A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher. - HALBERDSHAPED
Hastate. - Calligraphist
A calligrapher - Callosum
The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus. - Black bass
An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides. - Cuttle bone
The shell or bone of cuttlefishes, used for various purposes, as for making polishing powder, etc. - Black-faced
Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect. - Blackfeet
A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers. - Hooklet
A little hook. - Black lead
Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite. - Spikebill
The hooded merganser. - Blackpoll
A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata). - 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.
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