Word Meanings - BLACKBOARD - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.

• Drawboy
  A boy who operates the harness cords of a hand loom; also, a part of power loom that performs the same office.
• 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.
• Drawlatch
  A housebreaker or thief.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• Painture
  The art of painting.
• 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.
• Workbench
  A bench on which work is performed, as in a carpenter's shop.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Workmanly
  Becoming a skillful workman; skillful; well performed; workmanlike.
• Boarded
  of Board
• Broad-horned
  Having horns spreading widely.
• BLACKFLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hos
• BLACKWASHBLACKWASH
  A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water. 2. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.
• Drawbridge
  A bridge of which either the whole or a part is made to be raised up, let down, or drawn or turned aside, to admit or hinder communication at pleasure, as before the gate of a town or castle, or over a navigable river or canal.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• Drawlink
  Same as Drawbar (b).
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• Painty
  Unskillfully painted, so that the painter's method of work is too obvious; also, having too much pigment applied to the surface.

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