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A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body.
the usher to the Chapter of the Garter, so called from the black rod which he carries. He is of the king's chamber, and also usher to the House of Lords.
See Japan black.
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a.
Black as pitch or tar.
n.
A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.
n.
A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
n.
Alt. of Blacksnake
n.
A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
v. t.
To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
n.
One who makes crude potash, or black salts.
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One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
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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.
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Alt. of Blackwash
n.
The black-tailed deer (Cervus / Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.
n.
A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.
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The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
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Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
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See Blackamoor.
n. pl.
Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
a.
Black as jet; deep black.
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