Word Meanings - HORNSNAKE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A harmless snake (Farancia abacura), found in the Southern United States. The color is bluish black above, red below.

• Blackstrap
  A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
• SNAKESTONGUE
  Same as Adder's-tongue.
• Colorate
  Colored.
• Foundationless
  Having no foundation.
• Snakefish
  The band fish.
• Black-a-vised
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Statesmen
  of Statesman
• Blackened
  of Blacken
• Uniting
  of Unite
• Blackhead
  The scaup duck.
• 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
• Blackmailer
  One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
• 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.
• Blacktail
  A fish; the ruff or pope.
• STATESOCIALISM
  A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to give or maintain
• Coloration
  The act or art of coloring; the state of being colored.
• Founder
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• Snakehead
  A loose, bent-up end of one of the strap rails, or flat rails, formerly used on American railroads. It was sometimes so bent by the passage of a train as to slip over a wheel and pierce the bottom of a car.
• Blackball
  A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
• Statesman
  A man versed in public affairs and in the principles and art of government; especially, one eminent for political abilities.

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