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A small European singing bird (Saxicola /nanthe). The male is white beneath, bluish gray above, with black wings and a black stripe through each eye. The tail is black at the tip and in the middle, but white at the base and on each side. Called also checkbird, chickell, dykehopper, fallow chat, fallow finch, stonechat, and whitetail.

• Fallow deer
  A European species of deer (Cervus dama), much smaller than the red deer. In summer both sexes are spotted with white. It is common in England, where it is often domesticated in the parks.
• BLACKEYED
  Having black eyes. Dryden.
• Blackball
  A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
• BLACKSPANISH
  One of an old and well-known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumage, blue legs and feet, bright red comb and wattles, and white face. They are remarkable as egg layers.
• Blackening
  of Blacken
• Single-minded
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single-hearted.
• SINGLEMINDED
  Having a single purpose; hence, artless; guileless; single- hearted.
• Blackheart
  A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.
• Singularly
  In a singular manner; in a manner, or to a degree, not common to others; extraordinarily; as, to be singularly exact in one's statements; singularly considerate of others.
• WHITEHORSE
  A large mass of tough sinewy substance in the head of sperm whales, just above the upper jaw and extending in streaks into the junk above it. It resembles blubber, but contains no oil. Also, the part of the head in which it occurs.
• Black Monday
  Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold.
• Through
  From end to end of, or from side to side of; from one surface or limit of, to the opposite; into and out of at the opposite, or at another, point; as, to bore through a piece of timber, or through a board; a ball passes through the side of a ship.
• Blacktail
  A fish; the ruff or pope.
• Whitecoat
  The skin of a newborn seal; also, the seal itself.
• Whitening
  of Whiten
• Callithumpian
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a callithump.
• Whitewashed
  of Whitewash
• Fallowist
  One who favors the practice of fallowing land.

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