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The American black bear. See Bear.

• Black hole
  A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20,
• Blackmoor
  See Blackamoor.
• Black vomit
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• BLACKFRIAR
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• BLACKWATERSTATE
  Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
• Blackballing
  of Blackball
• Blackener
  One who blackens.
• Black-eyed
  Having black eyes.
• Black-mouthed
  Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
• Black wash
  Alt. of Blackwash
• BLACKFRIDAY
  Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and Septemb
• Blackband
  An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.
• Black-faced
  Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
• Black-jack
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
• Blackness
  The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
• Blackwash
  A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
• BLACKHAMBURG
  A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.
• Black bass
  An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides.

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