Word Meanings - BLACKLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.

• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Color sergeant
  See under Sergeant.
• BLACKFACED
  Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
• BLACKVOMIT
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Colorable
  Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
• Gloomily
  In a gloomy manner.

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