Word Meanings - GROUPER - Book Publishers vocabulary database
One of several species of valuable food fishes of the genus Epinephelus, of the family Serranidae, as the red grouper, or brown snapper (E. morio), and the black grouper, or warsaw (E. nigritus), both from Florida and the Gulf of Mexico.
- 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. - Florida bean
The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens. See under Bean. - 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 - 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. - 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 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. - Browning
of Brown - BLACKAVISED
Dark-visaged; swart. - BLACKMONK
A Benedictine monk. - Black-browed
Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. - 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 - Blacklist
To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been d - Blacksalter
One who makes crude potash, or black salts. - Brownback
The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
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