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.

• 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.
• 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
• 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.
• Blackwood
  A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
• BLACKSALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• Brownwort
  A species of figwort or Scrophularia (S. vernalis), and other species of the same genus, mostly perennials with inconspicuous coarse flowers.
• HOOKBILLED
  Having a strongly curved bill.

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