Word Meanings - COALMOUSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A small species of titmouse, with a black head; the coletit.
- BLACKDEATH
A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. - BLACKSNAKEBLACKSNAKE
A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. Note: The name is also applied to various other bl - 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. - Blackroot
See Colicroot. - BLACKEYED
Having black eyes. Dryden. - BLACKSPANISH
One of an old and well-known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumage, blue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers. - 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. - Black-letter
Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book. - Smallclothes
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - 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. - 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
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