Word Meanings - GRAPHITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Native carbon in hexagonal crystals, also foliated or granular massive, of black color and metallic luster, and so soft as to leave a trace on paper. It is used for pencils (improperly called lead pencils), for crucibles, and as a lubricator, etc. Often called plumbago or black lead.

• Lubricator
  One who, or that which, lubricates.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Oftensith
  Frequently; often.
• Calling
  of Call
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• BLACKMONK
  A Benedictine monk.
• COLORADOBEETLE
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Pot
• Carbonic
  Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, carbon; as, carbonic oxide.
• 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.
• Colorate
  Colored.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• Granular
  Consisting of, or resembling, grains; as, a granular substance.
• 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.
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
• Luster
  One who lusts.
• Oftentide
  Frequently; often.

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