Word Meanings - STERNBERGITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.

• Coloring
  of Color
• Flexible
  Capable of being flexed or bent; admitting of being turned, bowed, or twisted, without breaking; pliable; yielding to pressure; not stiff or brittle.
• Silveriness
  The state of being silvery.
• 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.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• 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.)
• 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.
• COLORBLIND
  Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• Colorable
  Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
• Laminae
  of Lamina
• Silverized
  of Silverize
• Black-browed
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
• BLACKART
  The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic. Note: This name was given in the Middle Ages to necromancy, under the idea that the latter term was derived from niger black, instead of nekro`s, a dead person, and mantei`a, d
• Black friar
  A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
• 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.
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
• COLORIMETRY
  The quantitative determination of the depth of color of a substance. 2. A method of quantitative chemical analysis based upon the comparison of the depth of color of a solution with that of a standard liquid.

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