Black (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it |
Black (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness |
Black (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness |
Black (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent |
Black (adv.) Sullenly |
Black (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness |
Black (n.) A black pigment or dye. |
Black (n.) A negro |
Black (n.) A black garment or dress |
Black (n.) Mourning garments of a black color |
Black (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. |
Black (n.) A stain |
Black (a.) To make black |
Black (a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush. |
Black art () The art practiced by conjurers and witches |
Black-a-vised (a.) Dark-visaged |
Black bass () An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei |
Black bass () The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3. |
Black book () One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes |
Black book () A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc. |
Black book () A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution. |
Black book () A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III. |
Black book () A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies. |
Black book () Any book which treats of necromancy. |
Black-browed (a.) Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy |
Black death () A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century. |
Black-eyed (a.) Having black eyes. |
Black-faced (a.) Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect. |
Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order |
Black-hearted (a.) Having a wicked, malignant disposition |
Black hole () A dungeon or dark cell in a prison |
Black-jack (n.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende |
Black-jack (n.) Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. |
Black-jack (n.) A large leather vessel for beer, etc. |
Black-jack (n.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak. |
Black-jack (n.) The ensign of a pirate. |
Black lead () Plumbago |
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 (a.) Written or printed in black letter |
Black-letter (a.) Given to the study of books in black letter |
Black-letter (a.) Of or pertaining to the days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky |
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. |
Black Monday () The first Monday after the holidays |
Black monk () A Benedictine monk. |
Black-mouthed (a.) Using foul or scurrilous language |
Black pudding () A kind of sausage made of blood, suet, etc., thickened with meal. |
Black Rod () 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. |
Black Rod () An usher in the legislature of British colonies. |
Black salts () Crude potash. |
Black snake (n.) Alt. of Blacksnake |
ducking duck hunting | hunting ducks |
hearts Black Maria | a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades |
cinch breeze picnic snap duck soup child's play pushover walkover piece of cake | any undertaking that is easy to do, marketing this product will be no picnic |
black operation | a covert operation not attributable to the organization carrying it out |
black market | an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls |
bladderwrack black rockweed bladder fucus tang Fucus vesiculosus | a common rockweed used in preparing kelp and as manure |
black buffalo Ictiobus niger | fish of the lower Mississippi |
Pacific spiny dogfish Squalus suckleyi | dogfish of Pacific coast of North America |
black-fronted bush shrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons | a kind of bush shrike |
black kite Milvus migrans | dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion |
black vulture Aegypius monachus | of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
black vulture carrion crow Coragyps atratus | American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard |
Pacific newt | any of several rough-skinned newts found in western North America |
Pacific giant salamander Dicamptodon ensatus | large (to inches) salamander of western North America |
Pacific tree toad Hyla regilla | the most commonly heard frog on the Pacific coast of America |
Pacific ridley olive ridley Lepidochelys olivacea | oliveolored sea turtle of tropical Pacific and Indian and the southern Atlantic oceans |
hadrosaur hadrosaurus duck-billed dinosaur | any of numerous large bipedal ornithischian dinosaurs having a horny duck-like bill and webbed feet, may have been partly aquatic |
blacksnake black racer Coluber constrictor | blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet |
black rat snake blacksnake pilot blacksnake mountain blacksnake Elaphe obsoleta | large harmless shiny black North American snake |
black-headed snake | small secretive ground-living snake, found from central United States to Argentina |
black-necked cobra spitting cobra Naja nigricollis | aggressive cobra widely distributed in Africa, rarely bites but spits venom that may cause blindness |
black mamba Dendroaspis augusticeps | a highly venomous southern African mamba dreaded because of its quickness and readiness to bite |
black and gold garden spider Argiope aurantia | a widely distributed North American garden spider |
black widow Latrodectus mactans | venomous New World spider, the female is black with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the underside of the abdomen |
Ixodes pacificus western black-legged tick | a tick that feeds on dusky-footed wood rat and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in western United States especially northern California |
Ixodes scapularis black-legged tick | parasitic on mice of genus Peromyscus and bites humans, principal vector for Lyme disease in eastern United States (especially New England), northern form was for a time known as Ixodes dammini (deer tick) |
black grouse | grouse of which the male is bluish-black |
European black grouse heathfowl Lyrurus tetrix | large northern European grouse that is black with a lyre-shaped tail |
Asian black grouse Lyrurus mlokosiewiczi | a black grouse of western Asia |
blackcock black cock | male black grouse |
black-billed cuckoo Coccyzus erythropthalmus | North American cuckoo, builds a nest and rears its own young |
duck | small wild or domesticated web-footed broad-billed swimming bird usually having a depressed body and short legs |
diving duck | any of various ducks of especially bays and estuaries that dive for their food |
dabbling duck dabbler | any of numerous shallow-water ducks that feed by upending and dabbling |
black duck Anas rubripes | a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
pintail pin-tailed duck Anas acuta | long-necked river duck of the Old and New Worlds having elongated central tail feathers |
ruddy duck Oxyura jamaicensis | reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America |
canvasback canvasback duck Aythya valisineria | North American wild duck valued for sport and food |
scaup scaup duck bluebill broadbill | diving ducks of North America having a bluish-grey bill |
lesser scaup lesser scaup duck lake duck Aythya affinis | common scaup of North America, males have purplish heads |
wild duck | an undomesticated duck (especially a mallard) |
wood duck summer duck wood widgeon Aix sponsa | showy North American duck that nests in hollow trees |
mandarin duck Aix galericulata | showy crested Asiatic duck, often domesticated |
muscovy duck musk duck Cairina moschata | large crested wild duck of Central America and South America, widely domesticated |
sea duck | any of various large diving ducks found along the seacoast: eider, scoter, merganser |
eider eider duck | duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females |
merganser fish duck sawbill sheldrake | large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges |
black swan Cygnus atratus | large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill |
platypus duckbill duckbilled platypus duck-billed platypus Ornithorhynchus anatinus | small densely furred aquatic monotreme of Australia and Tasmania having a broad bill and tail and webbed feet, only species in the family Ornithorhynchidae |
duck down | down of the duck |