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.

• 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.
• 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.
• Blacktail
  A fish; the ruff or pope.
• Callidity
  Acuteness of discernment; cunningness; shrewdness.
• Callosan
  Of the callosum.
• Bearing rein
  A short rein looped over the check hook or the hames to keep the horse's head up; -- called in the United States a checkrein.
• Shrubbery
  A collection of shrubs.
• 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

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