Word Meanings - SWARTBACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The black-backed gull (Larus marinus); -- called also swarbie.

• Black-faced
  Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
• Black-jack
  A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
• Blackness
  The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
• Back door
  A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
• Blackwash
  A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
• Backlog
  A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.
• Calligraphist
  A calligrapher
• Backslide
  To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
• Callosum
  The great band commissural fibers which unites the two cerebral hemispheres. See corpus callosum, under Carpus.
• Backwash
  To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
• BLACKBURNIANWARBLER
  A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
• Black bass
  An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides.
• BLACKSALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• Blackfeet
  A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
• Black lead
  Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• Blackpoll
  A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).
• Backdoor
  Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.
• Blackwood
  A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
• Backpiece
  Alt. of Backplate
• Calligraphy
  Fair or elegant penmanship.

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