American (a.) Of or pertaining to America |
American (a.) Of or pertaining to the United States. |
American (n.) A native of America |
Anti-American (a.) Opposed to the Americans, their aims, or interests, or to the genius of American institutions. |
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. |
American football American football game | a game played by two teams of players on a rectangular field yards long, teams try to get possession of the ball and advance it across the opponents goal line in a series of (running or passing) plays |
hearts Black Maria | a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades |
black operation | a covert operation not attributable to the organization carrying it out |
North American Free Trade Agreement NAFTA | an agreement for free trade between the United States and Canada and Mexico, became effective in for ten years |
black market | an illegal market in which goods or currencies are bought and sold in violation of rationing or controls |
American Civil War United States Civil War War between the States | civil war in the United States between the North and the South, - |
American Revolution American Revolutionary War War of American Independence American War of Independence | the revolution of the American Colonies against Great Britain, - |
Spanish-American War Spanish War | a war between the United States and Spain in |
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 |
flagfish American flagfish Jordanella floridae | a fish with a dark-blue back and whitish sides with red stripes, found in swamps and streams of Florida |
American smooth dogfish Mustelus canis | found along the Atlantic coast of the Americas |
robin American robin Turdus migratorius | large American thrush having a rusted breast and abdomen |
American redstart redstart Setophaga ruticilla | flycatching warbler of eastern North America the male having bright orange on sides and wings and tail |
New World oriole American oriole oriole | American songbird, male is black and orange or yellow |
American crow Corvus brachyrhyncos | common crow of North America |
American magpie Pica pica hudsonia | a magpie of Rocky Mountains in North America |
brown creeper American creeper Certhia americana | a common creeper in North America with a downurved bill |
black-fronted bush shrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons | a kind of bush shrike |
American water ouzel Cinclus mexicanus | a water ouzel of western North America |
black kite Milvus migrans | dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion |
sparrow hawk American kestrel kestrel Falco sparverius | small North American falcon |
bald eagle American eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus | a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body |
black vulture Aegypius monachus | of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
black vulture carrion crow Coragyps atratus | American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard |
crapaud South American bullfrog Leptodactylus pentadactylus | large toothed frog of South America and Central America resembling the bullfrog |
American toad Bufo americanus | common toad of America |
American green toad Bufo debilis | small green or yellow-green toad with small black bars and stripes |
South American poison toad | a South American toad |
American chameleon anole Anolis carolinensis | small arboreal tropical American insectivorous lizards with the ability to change skin color |
American alligator Alligator mississipiensis | large alligator of the southeastern United States |
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) |
wood tick American dog tick Dermacentor variabilis | common tick that can transmit Rocky Mountain spotted fever and tularemia |
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 |
black duck Anas rubripes | a dusky duck of northeastern United States and Canada |
American widgeon baldpate Anas americana | a widgeon the male of which has a white crown |
American merganser Mergus merganser americanus | common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander |
black swan Cygnus atratus | large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill |