Word Meanings - BLACKMAILER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

• 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.
• Extorting
  of Extort
• Moneyage
  A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin.
• BLACKFRIAR
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• BLACKWATERSTATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• 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.
• 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.
• BLACKFRIDAY
  Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and Septemb
• MAILSHELL
  A chiton.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• 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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