Word Meanings - BLACK-LETTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.

PRINTINGOUT
A method of printing, in which the image is fully brought out by the direct actinic action of light without subsequent development by means of chemicals.
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.
Lettered
of Letter
Printless
Making no imprint.
BLACKHEARTED
Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
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.
Lettering
of Letter
Printshop
A shop where prints are sold.
BLACKHOLE
A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656,
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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