Word Meanings - STANNITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mineral of a steel-gray or iron-black color; tin pyrites. It is a sulphide of tin, copper, and iron.

• 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.
• BLACKFACED
  Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• BLACKVOMIT
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• 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.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Color sergeant
  See under Sergeant.
• Steeling
  of Steel
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• BLACKFLAGS
  An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their hos
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• BLACKWASHBLACKWASH
  A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water. 2. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen. C. Kingsley.
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
• Coloring
  of Color

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