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An alloy of copper, invented by the Japanese, having a very dark blue color approaching black.

• BLACKJACK
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.)
• Blackly
  In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.
• COPPERBOTTOMED
  Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ship.
• Black salts
  Crude potash.
• Colorado beetle
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. S
• Coppering
  of Copper
• Blacked
  of Black
• Blackcap
  A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
• ALLOYSTEEL
  Any steel containing a notable quantity of some other metal alloyed with the iron, usually chromium, nickel, manganese, tungsten, or vanadium.
• Blackguarded
  of Blackguard
• Blackguarding
  of Blackguard
• 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.
• Blackmail
  A certain rate of money, corn, cattle, or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England and south of Scotland, to certain men who were allied to robbers, or moss troopers, to be by them protected from pillage.
• COPPERFACED
  Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
• Blacksmith
  A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
• Colorado group
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Copperas
  Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate

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