Word Meanings - TAPESTRYBEETLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small black dermestoid beetle (Attagenus piceus) whose larva feeds on tapestry, carpets, silk, fur, flour, and various other goods.

• Blackballed
  of Blackball
• BLACKHAMBURG
  A sweet and juicy variety of European grape, of a dark purplish black color, much grown under glass in northern latitudes.
• Blacken
  To make or render black.
• OTHERGUISEOTHERGUESS
  Of another kind or sort; in another way. "Otherguess arguments." Berkeley.
• Black-hearted
  Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
• Black monk
  A Benedictine monk.
• Blackthorn
  A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
• Otherwhile
  Alt. of Otherwhiles
• Whosesoever
  The possessive of whosoever. See Whosoever.
• Blackballing
  of Blackball
• BLACKHAND
  A Spanish anarchistic society, many of the members of which were imprisoned in 1883. 2. A lawless or blackmailing secret society, esp. among Italians.
• Blackener
  One who blackens.
• OTHERWHILEOTHERWHILES
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; [Archaic] Weighing otherwhiles ten pounds and more. Holland.
• 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,
• Blackmoor
  See Blackamoor.
• Black vomit
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• Otherwhiles
  At another time, or other times; sometimes; /ccasionally.

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