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Any coniferous tree of the genus Picea, as the Norway spruce (P. excelsa), and the white and black spruces of America (P. alba and P. nigra), besides several others in the far Northwest. See Picea.
- Whitethorn
The hawthorn. - BLACKAVISED
Dark-visaged; swart. - Black-hearted
Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad. - BLACKMONK
A Benedictine monk. - Black monk
A Benedictine monk. - WHITEFOOT
A white mark on the foot of a horse, between the fetlock and the coffin. - Blackthorn
A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. - WHITEWATER
A dangerous disease of sheep. - White-blaze
See White-face. - White-hot
White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence. - Blackballed
of Blackball - Whitethroat
Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species (Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler (S. hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat (S. c - Blackener
One who blackens. - BLACKBIRDER
A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] F. T. Bullen. - 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, - BLACKMOUTHED
Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous. - Blackmoor
See Blackamoor. - WHITEFRIAR
A mendicant monk of the Carmelite order, so called from the white cloaks worn by the order. See Carmelite.
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