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 |
swan song
last hurrah | a final performance or effort (especially before retirement) |
swan dive
swallow dive | a dive in which the diver arches the back with arms outstretched before entering the water |
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 |
| 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 |
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 |
ringneck snake
ring-necked snake
ring snake | any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
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 |
ring-necked pheasant
Phasianus colchicus | common pheasant having bright plumage and a white neck ring |
ring-necked parakeet
Psittacula krameri | African parakeet |
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 |
| swan | stately heavy-bodied aquatic bird with very long neck and usually white plumage as adult |
mute swan
Cygnus olor | soundless Eurasian swan, commonly domesticated |
whooper
whooper swan
Cygnus cygnus | common Old World swan noted for its whooping call |
tundra swan
Cygnus columbianus | swan that nests in tundra regions of the New and Old Worlds |
whistling swan
Cygnus columbianus columbianus | North American subspecies of tundra swan having a soft whistling note |
Bewick's swan
Cygnus columbianus bewickii | Eurasian subspecies of tundra swan, smaller than the whooper |
trumpeter trumpeter swan
Cygnus buccinator | large pure white wild swan of western North America having a sonorous cry |
black swan
Cygnus atratus | large Australian swan having black plumage and a red bill |
| swan's down | down of the swan |
black stork
Ciconia nigra | Old World stork that is glossy black above and white below |
policeman bird
black-necked stork
jabiru Xenorhyncus asiaticus | large mostly white Australian stork |
black turnstone
Arenaria-Melanocephala | common turnstone of the Pacific coast of North America |
black-necked stilt
Himantopus mexicanus | stilt of southwestern United States to northern South America having black plumage extending from the head down the back of the neck |
black-winged stilt
Himantopus himantopus | stilt of Europe and Africa and Asia having mostly white plumage but with black wings |
black-backed gull
great black-backed gull
cob Larus marinus | white gull having a black back and wings |
black guillemot
Cepphus grylle | northern Atlantic guillemot |
red-necked grebe
Podiceps grisegena | large stocky grebe of circumpolar regions having a dark neck |
black-necked grebe
eared grebe
Podiceps nigricollis | small grebe with yellow ear tufts and a black neck, found in Eurasia and southern Africa as well as western United States |
black-footed albatross
gooney
gooney bird
goonie
goony
Diomedea nigripes | a variety of albatross with black feet |
sperm whale
cachalot
black whale Physeter catodon | large whale with a large cavity in the head containing spermaceti and oil, also a source of ambergris |
pilot whale
black whale common blackfish
blackfish Globicephala melaena | small darkolored whale of the Atlantic coast of the United States, the largest male acts as pilot or leader for the school |