Word Meanings - THAROS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A small American butterfly (Phycoides tharos) having the upper surface of the wings variegated with orange and black, the outer margins black with small white crescents; -- called also pearl crescent.

• Calligrapher
  One skilled in calligraphy; a good penman.
• Whitetop
  Fiorin.
• Callose
  Furnished with protuberant or hardened spots.
• BLACKBROWED
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.
• Haveless
  Having little or nothing.
• BLACKPUDDING
  A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. And fat black puddings, -- proper food, For warriors that delight in blood. Hudibras.
• Blackballing
  of Blackball
• Orangeman
  One of a secret society, organized in the north of Ireland in 1795, the professed objects of which are the defense of the regning sovereign of Great Britain, the support of the Protestant religion, the maintenance of the laws of the kingdom, etc.;
• WHITEEAR
  The wheatear.
• Blackener
  One who blackens.
• Pearlwort
  A name given to several species of Sagina, low and inconspicuous herbs of the Chickweed family.
• WHITEPLAGUE
  Tuberculosis, esp. of the lungs.
• 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,
• Uppermost
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme.
• Blackmoor
  See Blackamoor.
• Whiteboy
  A favorite.
• Black vomit
  A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; -- one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
• White-livered
  Having a pale look; feeble; hence, cowardly; pusillanimous; dastardly.
• Calligraphic
  Alt. of Calligraphical
• Whitewall
  The spotted flycatcher; -- so called from the white color of the under parts.

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