Word Meanings - PEPPERCORN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A dried berry of the black pepper (Piper nigrum).

• Drifting
  of Drift
• Drill press
  A machine for drilling holes in metal, the drill being pressed to the metal by the action of a screw.
• Driven
  of Drive
• Blackbird
  In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbir
• Drizzly
  Characterized by small rain, or snow; moist and disagreeable.
• Blackfin
  See Bluefin.
• Piperic
  Pertaining to, or derived from, or designating, a complex organic acid found in the products of different members of the Pepper family, and extracted as a yellowish crystalline substance.
• Blacklead
  To coat or to polish with black lead.
• 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
• Black pudding
  A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal.
• DRIBBLETDRIBLET
  A small piece or part; a small sum; a small quantity of money in making up a sum; as, the money was paid in dribblets. When made up in dribblets, as they could, their best securities were at an interest of twelve per cent. Burke.
• Blackwork
  Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
• Driftage
  Deviation from a ship's course due to leeway.
• Drillstock
  A contrivance for holding and turning a drill.
• Driving
  of Drive
• Blackboard
  A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.
• Blackfish
  A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
• Piperidge
  Same as Pepperidge.
• Blackleg
  A notorious gambler.

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