Word Meanings - MENACCANITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.

• Calling
  of Call
• Callipash
  See Calipash.
• Massive
  Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy.
• 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.
• Occurse
  Same as Occursion.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• BLACKBIRDER
  A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] F. T. Bullen.
• 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.
• BLACKMOUTHED
  Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Callipee
  See Calipee.
• Callyciflorous
  Having the petals and stamens adnate to the calyx; -- applied to a subclass of dicotyledonous plants in the system of the French botanist Candolle.
• Massively
  In a heavy mass.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• Occursion
  A meeting; a clash; a collision.
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• BLACKBROWED
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.

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