Word Meanings - THORITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A mineral of a brown to black color, or, as in the variety orangite, orange-yellow. It is essentially a silicate of thorium.

• BLACKHEARTED
  Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.
• Blackroot
  See Colicroot.
• COLORADOBEETLE
  A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Pot
• Coloring
  of Color
• Orangeism
  Attachment to the principles of the society of Orangemen; the tenets or practices of the Orangemen.
• 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.
• Yellow-covered
  Covered or bound in yellow paper.
• Blackfoot
  Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
• Yellowtop
  A kind of grass, perhaps a species of Agrostis.
• 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.
• Black-letter
  Written or printed in black letter; as, a black-letter manuscript or book.
• BLACKHOLE
  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, 17656,
• COLORADOGROUP
  A subdivision of the cretaceous formation of western North America, especially developed in Colorado and the upper Missouri region.
• Browning
  of Brown
• Colorable
  Specious; plausible; having an appearance of right or justice.
• Mineralist
  One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
• 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.;

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