Word Meanings - BOBOLINK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln.

• Brownstone
  A dark variety of sandstone, much used for building purposes.
• Whitewasher
  One who whitewashes.
• Calligraphical
  Of or pertaining to calligraphy.
• 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
• Callosity
  A hard or thickened spot or protuberance; a hardening and thickening of the skin or bark of a part, eps. as a result of continued pressure or friction.
• 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.
• Blackballing
  of Blackball
• SINGLETAX
  A tax levied upon land alone, irrespective of improvements, -- advocated by certain economists as the sole source of public revenue. Whatever may be thought of Henry George's single-tax theory as a whole, there can be little question that a relatively h
• Blackener
  One who blackens.
• Singlestick
  In England and Scotland, a cudgel used in fencing or fighting; a backsword.
• WHITELIMED
  Whitewashed or plastered with lime. "White-limed walls." Shak.
• Black hole
  A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20,
• Singultus
  Hiccough.
• Blackmoor
  See Blackamoor.
• White-eye
  Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as Zosterops palpebrosus of India, and Z. c/rulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called also bush creeper, and wh
• Black vomit
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• Whitener
  One who, or that which, whitens; a bleacher; a blancher; a whitewasher.
• Brown thrush
  A common American singing bird (Harporhynchus rufus), allied to the mocking bird; -- also called brown thrasher.
• White-water
  A dangerous disease of sheep.

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