Word Meanings - THIMBLEBERRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A kind of black raspberry (Rubus occidentalis), common in America.

• Blackener
  One who blackens.
• 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.
• Commonness
  State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.
• 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.
• BLACKSALTS
  Crude potash. De Colange.
• Blackballing
  of Blackball
• Black-eyed
  Having black eyes.
• Black-mouthed
  Using foul or scurrilous language; slanderous.
• Black wash
  Alt. of Blackwash
• Commonplace
  Common; ordinary; trite; as, a commonplace person, or observation.
• BLACKDEATH
  A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
• BLACKSNAKEBLACKSNAKE
  A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long. Note: The name is also applied to various other bl
• Blackband
  An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.
• 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.
• 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.

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