Word Meanings - PITCH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc., to preserve them.

• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Boiling
  of Boil
• Canvasser
  One who canvasses.
• Preserve
  To keep or save from injury or destruction; to guard or defend from evil, harm, danger, etc.; to protect.
• Thick-headed
  Having a thick skull; stupid.
• 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.
• BLACKBURNIANWARBLER
  A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• BLACKSALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• 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.
• Preserver
  One who, or that which, preserves, saves, or defends, from destruction, injury, or decay; esp., one who saves the life or character of another.
• Thickish
  Somewhat thick.
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• BLACKDEATH
  A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• BLACKSNAKEBLACKSNAKE
  A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. Note: The name is also applied to various other bl
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.

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