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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.

• 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
• Whitethorn
  The hawthorn.
• 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.
• Black vomit
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.

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