Bald eagle () The white-headed eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head. |
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. |
hearts Black Maria | a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades |
snake dance | a ceremonial dance (as by the Hopi) in which snakes are handled or invoked |
spread eagle | a skating figure executed with the skates heel to heel in a straight line |
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 |
eagle ray | powerful free-swimming tropical ray noted for `soaring' by flapping winglike fins, usually harmless but has venomous tissue near base of the tail as in stingrays |
spotted eagle ray spotted ray Aetobatus narinari | ray with back covered with white or yellow spots, widely distributed in warm seas |
black-fronted bush shrike Chlorophoneus nigrifrons | a kind of bush shrike |
black kite Milvus migrans | dark Old World kite feeding chiefly on carrion |
harrier eagle short-toed eagle | any of numerous large Old World hawks intermediate in some respects between typical hawks and typical eagles |
eagle bird of Jove | any of various large keen-sighted diurnal birds of prey noted for their broad wings and strong soaring flight |
harpy harpy eagle Harpia harpyja | large black-and-white crested eagle of tropical America |
golden eagle Aquila chrysaetos | large eagle of mountainous regions of the northern hemisphere having a golden-brown head and neck |
tawny eagle Aquila rapax | brownish eagle of Africa and parts of Asia |
bald eagle American eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus | a large eagle of North America that has a white head and dark wings and body |
sea eagle | any of various large eagles that usually feed on fish |
Kamchatkan sea eagle Stellar's sea eagle Haliaeetus pelagicus | found on coasts of the northwestern Pacific |
ern erne grey sea eagle gray sea eagle European sea eagle white-tailed sea eagle Haliatus albicilla | bulky greyish-brown eagle with a short wedge-shaped white tail, of Europe and Greenland |
fishing eagle Haliaeetus leucorhyphus | of southeast Europe and central Asia |
osprey fish hawk fish eagle sea eagle Pandion haliaetus | large harmless hawk found worldwide that feeds on fish and builds a bulky nest often occupied for years |
black vulture Aegypius monachus | of southern Eurasia and northern Africa |
black vulture carrion crow Coragyps atratus | American vulture smaller than the turkey buzzard |
amphiuma congo snake congo eel blind eel | aquatic eel-shaped salamander having two pairs of very small feet, of still muddy waters in the southern United States |
glass lizard glass snake joint snake | snakelike lizard of Europe and Asia and North America with vestigial hind limbs and the ability to regenerate its long fragile tail |
snake serpent ophidian | limbless scaly elongate reptile, some are venomous |
colubrid snake colubrid | mostly harmless temperate-to-tropical terrestrial or arboreal or aquatic snakes |
hoop snake | any of various harmless North American snakes that were formerly believed to take tail in mouth and roll along like a hoop |
thunder snake worm snake Carphophis amoenus | small reddish wormlike snake of eastern United States |
ringneck snake ring-necked snake ring snake | any of numerous small nonvenomous North American snakes with a yellow or orange ring around the neck |
hognose snake puff adder sand viper | harmless North American snake with upturned nose, may spread its head and neck or play dead when disturbed |
leaf-nosed snake | any of various pale blotched snakes with a blunt snout of southwestern North America |
green snake grass snake | either of two North American chiefly insectivorous snakes that are green in color |
smooth green snake Opheodrys vernalis | of western and central United States |
rough green snake Opheodrys aestivus | of southern and eastern United States |
green snake | any of numerous African colubrid snakes |
blacksnake black racer Coluber constrictor | blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet |
whip-snake whip snake whipsnake | any of several small fast-moving snakes with long whiplike tails |
coachwhip coachwhip snake Masticophis flagellum | a whipsnake of southern United States and Mexico, tail resembles a braided whip |
rat snake | any of various nonvenomous rodent-eating snakes of North America and Asia |
corn snake red rat snake Elaphe guttata | large harmless snake of southeastern United States, often on farms |
black rat snake blacksnake pilot blacksnake mountain blacksnake Elaphe obsoleta | large harmless shiny black North American snake |
chicken snake | large North American snake |
Indian rat snake Ptyas mucosus | enter buildings in pursuit of prey |
glossy snake Arizona elegans | nocturnal burrowing snake of western United States with shiny tan scales |
bull snake bull-snake | any of several large harmless rodent-eating North American burrowing snakes |
gopher snake Pituophis melanoleucus | bull snake of western North America that invades rodent burrows |
pine snake | any of several bull snakes of eastern and southeastern United States found chiefly in pine woods, now threatened |
king snake kingsnake | any of numerous nonvenomous North American constrictors, feed on other snakes and small mammals |