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.

• 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 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.
• Browning
  of Brown
• BLACKAVISED
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• BLACKMONK
  A Benedictine monk.
• 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.
• Brownback
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• BLACKBIRDER
  A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] F. T. Bullen.

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