Word Meanings - BEAUSEANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The black and white standard of the Knights Templars.

• Whitethroat
  Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. c
• 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.
• 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.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• BLACKSALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• 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.
• WHITEFOOT
  A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• WHITEWATER
  A dangerous disease of sheep.
• Knights bannerets
  of Knight banneret
• Whiteblow
  Same as Whitlow grass, under Whitlow.
• White-limed
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime.
• Whitetop
  Fiorin.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• BLACKDEATH
  A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• BLACKSNAKEBLACKSNAKE
  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 bl
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
• WHITEFRIAR
  A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.

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