Word Meanings - FRANKFORTBLACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

• Preparing
  of Prepare
• BLACKBROWED
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.
• 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.
• BLACKPUDDING
  A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.
• 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.
• Burnstickle
  A stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus).
• Prepare
  To fit, adapt, or qualify for a particular purpose or condition; to make ready; to put into a state for use or application; as, to prepare ground for seed; to prepare a lesson.
• BLACKBURNIANWARBLER
  A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• BLACKSALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• 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.
• Copperplate
  A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
• Prepared
  Made fit or suitable; adapted; ready; as, prepared food; prepared questions.

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