Word Meanings - BLACK-EYED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having black eyes.

• BLACKMONK
  A Benedictine monk.
• 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.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• 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.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Havanese
  Of or pertaining to Havana, in Cuba.
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• BLACKMOUTHED
  Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
• BLACKBIRDER
  A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] F. T. Bullen.
• 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.
• Blackburnian warbler
  A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
• Blackguard
  The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants a
• Blacklist
  To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been d
• Blacksalter
  One who makes crude potash, or black salts.

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