Word Meanings - BLACKBALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

Blackroot
See Colicroot.
Composition
The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.
Take-up
That which takes up or tightens; specifically, a device in a sewing machine for drawing up the slack thread as the needle rises, in completing a stitch.
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,
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.
Black-letter
Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
Engrave
To deposit in the grave; to bury.
Taking-off
Removal; murder. See To take off (c), under Take, v. t.
BLACKJACK
A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.)
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.
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.
Engraved
of Engrave
BLACKART
The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic. Note: This name was given in the Middle Ages to necromancy, under the idea that the latter term was derived from niger black, instead of nekro`s, a dead person, and mantei`a, d
BLACKLETTER
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.

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