Word Meanings - WANDEROO - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A large monkey (Macacus silenus) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo.

• Nativeness
  The quality or state of being native.
• WHITEFACE
  A white mark in the forehead of a horse, descending almost to the nose; -- called also white-blaze.
• Blackhead
  The scaup duck.
• Tailoress
  A female tailor.
• WHITESLAVER
  A person engaged in procuring or holding a woman or women for unwilling prostitution.
• Blackmailer
  One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
• White-blaze
  See White-face.
• Blackstrap
  A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
• White-hot
  White with heat; heated to whiteness, or incandescence.
• Whitethorn
  The hawthorn.
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• BLACKBROWED
  Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.
• Great-bellied
  Having a great belly; bigbellied; pregnant; teeming.
• 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.
• Black-a-vised
  Dark-visaged; swart.
• Largely
  In a large manner.
• GREATWHITEWAY
  Broadway, in New York City, in the neighborhood chiefly occupied by theaters, as from about 30th Street about 50th Street; -- so called from its brilliant illumination at night.
• Blackened
  of Blacken
• Blackening
  of Blacken

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