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 |
ring-around-theosy
ring-around-aosy
ring-aosy | a children's game in which the players dance around in a circle and at a given signal all squat |
hearts
Black Maria | a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades |
round dance
ring dance | a folk dance, dancers form a circle |
| ring vaccination | administering vaccine only to people in close contact with an isolated infected patient, prevents the spread of a highly infectious disease by surrounding the patient with a ring of immunization |
| 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 |
| ring containment | a strategy of defense in cases of bioterrorism, vaccination only of people exposed and others who are in contact with them, ring containment is a proven method of halting a smallpox epidemic |
| virus | (virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts, many are pathogenic, a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein |
| parainfluenza virus | a virus that causes upper respiratory infection (including the common cold and bronchiolitis), most often in children |
| Junin virus | the RNA virus that causes Argentine hemorrhagic fever, carried by rats and mice |
| Lassa virus | the RNA virus that causes Lassa fever |
| lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus | the RNA virus that causes lymphocytic choriomeningitis, infects mice and monkeys and dogs and guinea pigs and human beings |
| Machupo virus | the RNA virus that causes Bolivian hemorrhagic fever, carried by rats and mice |
| Ebola virus | a filovirus that causes Ebola hemorrhagic fever, carried by animals, can be used as a bioweapon |
| Marburg virus | a filovirus that causes Marburg disease, carried by animals, can be used as a bioweapon |
West Nile virus
West Nile encephalitis virus | the flavivirus that causes West Nile encephalitis |
| myxoma virus | a poxvirus closely related to smallpox virus, causes benign gelatinous tumors in humans |
variola virus
smallpox virus | the virus that causes smallpox in humans, can be used as a bioweapon |
variola major
variola major virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of up to percent |
variola minor
variola minor virus | a type of smallpox virus that has a fatality rate of about percent |
tobacco mosaic virus
TMV | the widely studied plant virus that causes tobacco mosaic, it was the first virus discovered () |
| plant virus | a plant pathogen that is a virus consisting of a single strand of RNA |
| animal virus | an animal pathogen that is a virus |
human Tell leukemia virus-
HTLV- | retrovirus causing Tell leukemia |
human immunodeficiency virus
HIV | the virus that causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), it replicates in and kills the helper T cells |
| respiratory syncytial virus | a paramyxovirus that forms syncytia in tissue culture and that is responsible for severe respiratory diseases such as bronchiolitis and bronchial pneumonia (especially in children) |
| hepatitis A virus | the virus causing hepatitis A |
coxsackievirus
Coxsackie virus | enterovirus causing a disease resembling poliomyelitis but without paralysis |
herpes
herpes virus | any of the animal viruses that cause painful blisters on the skin |
herpes simplex
herpes simplex virus | a herpes virus that affects the skin and nervous system |
herpes zoster
herpes zoster virus | a herpes virus that causes shingles |
herpes varicella zoster
herpes varicella zoster virus | a herpes virus that causes chickenpox and shingles |
Epstein-Barr virus
EBV | the herpes virus that causes infectious mononucleosis, associated with specific cancers in Africa and China |
| varicella zoster virus | the member of the herpes virus family that is responsible for chickenpox |
| human papilloma virus | any of a group of papovaviruses associated with genital or oral carcinomas or a group associated with benign genital tumors |
polyoma
polyoma virus | a virus the can initiate various kinds of tumors in mice |
| slow virus | a virus that remains dormant in the body for a long time before symptoms appear, kuru is caused by a slow virus |
| onion yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of onion plants |
| potato yellow-dwarf virus | the virus that produces stunting and yellowing of the leaves of potato plants |
ring rot bacteria
Pseudomonas solanacearum | causes brown rot in tomatoes and potatoes and tobacco etc |
| tumor virus | a cell-free filtrate held to be a virus responsible for a specific neoplasm |
wound tumor virus
WTV | a tumor virus transmitted by leafhoppers |
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 |
ring ouzel
ring blackbird
ring thrush
Turdus torquatus | European thrush common in rocky areas, the male has blackish plumage with a white band around the neck |
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 |