Word Meanings - BLACKTHORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

• Spread-eagle
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• Blackened
  of Blacken
• 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
• Blackhead
  The scaup duck.
• 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.
• Blackmailer
  One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
• Blackstrap
  A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Bearing cloth
  A cloth with which a child is covered when carried to be baptized.
• Shrubberies
  of Shrubbery
• Black-a-vised
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Blackball
  A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
• Spreader
  One who, or that which, spreads, expands, or propogates.
• Blackening
  of Blacken
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Blackheart
  A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.
• BLACKMONK
  A Benedictine monk.
• Black Monday
  Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold.
• Blacktail
  A fish; the ruff or pope.

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