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.
- 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 - 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. - 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. - Calligraphy
Fair or elegant penmanship. - Callot
A plant coif or skullcap. Same as Calotte.
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