Alum stone
() A subsulphate of alumina and potash |
Amazon stone
(n.) A variety of feldspar, having a verdigris-green color. |
Apple-jack
(n.) Apple brandy. |
Arch stone
() A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch |
Bay leaf
() See under 3d Bay. |
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 |
| dwarf | a plant or animal that is atypically small |
| pitch | the action or manner of throwing something, his pitch fell short and his hat landed on the floor |
| pitch delivery | (baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter |
change-up
change-of-pace
change-of-pace ball
off-speed pitch | a baseball thrown with little velocity when the batter is expecting a fastball |
| overhand pitch | a baseball pitch in which the hand moves above the shoulder |
submarine ball
submarine pitch | a pitch thrown sidearm instead of overhead |
| wild pitch | an errant pitch that the catcher cannot be expected to catch and that allows a base runner to advance a base |
line-drive single
line single | a single resulting from a line drive |
single
bingle | a base hit on which the batter stops safely at first base |
| stepping stone | any means of advancement, the job was just a stepping stone on his way to fame and riches |
whitelash
white backlash | backlash by white racists against black civil rights advances |
scrub
scrubbing
scouring | the act of cleaning a surface by rubbing it with a brush and soap and water |
Turkish bath
steam bath
vapor bath
vapour bath | you sweat in a steam room before getting a rubdown and cold shower |
rack
single-foot | a rapid gait of a horse in which each foot strikes the ground separately |
crawl crawling
creep
creeping | a slow mode of locomotion on hands and knees or dragging the body, a crawl was all that the injured man could manage, the traffic moved at a creep |
mountain climbing
mountaineering | the activity of climbing a mountain |
| lurch pitch pitching | abrupt up-and-down motion (as caused by a ship or other conveyance), the pitching and tossing was quite exciting |
all fours
high-low-jack | card games in which points are won for taking the high or low or jack or game |
beggar-my-neighbor
beggar-my-neighbour
strip-Jack-naked | a card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards |
blackjack
twenty-one
vingt-et-un | a gambling game using cards, the object is to hold cards having a higher count than those dealt to the banker up to but not exceeding |
hearts
Black Maria | a form of whist in which players avoid winning tricks containing hearts or the queen of spades |
| pitch auction pitch | an all-fours game in which the first card led is a trump |
Chinese checkers
Chinese chequers | a board game in which each player tries to move a set of marbles through a set of holes from one point of a six-pointed star to the opposite point |
soft-shoe
soft-shoe shuffle
soft-shoe dancing | tap dancing wearing shoes that have soft soles |
Virginia reel
reel | an American country dance which starts with the couples facing each other in two lines |
| pitch pitch shot | a high approach shot in golf |
single entry
single-entry bookkeeping | a simple bookkeeping system, transactions are entered in only one account |
phytotherapy
herbal therapy
botanical medicine | the use of plants or plant extracts for medicinal purposes (especially plants that are not part of the normal diet) |
| shore duty | naval service at land bases |
| Japanese stranglehold | a wrestling hold in which the opponent's arms are crossed in front of his own neck to exert pressure on his windpipe |
| 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 |
buyer's market
buyers' market
soft market | a market in which more people want to sell than want to buy |
grey market
gray market | an unofficial market in which goods are bought and sold at prices lower than the official price set by a regulatory agency |
| soft sell | suggestive or persuasive advertising |
| white sale | a sale of household linens |
| white man's burden | the supposed responsibility of the white race to provide care for their non-white subjects |
| single combat | a fight between two people, in all armies there were officers who needed to prove their bravery by single combat |
Chino-Japanese War
Sino-Japanese War | a war between China and Japan ( and ) over the control of the Korean Peninsula, China was overwhelmingly defeated at Port Arthur |
| Kennesaw Mountain | battle of the American Civil War (), Union forces under William Tecumseh Sherman were repulsed by Confederate troops under Joseph Eggleston Johnston |
Leyte
Leyte Island
Leyte invasion | a battle in World War II, the return of United States troops to the Philippines began with landings on Leyte Island in October , the battle marked first use of kamikaze aircraft by the Japanese |
Okinawa
Okinawa campaign | a campaign in the closing days of World War II in the Pacific (April to June ), in savage close-quarter fighting United States marines and regular army troops took the island from the Japanese, considered the greatest victory of the Pacific campaign for the Americans |
Battle of Wake
Battle of Wake Island | in December the island was captured by the Japanese after a gallant last-ditch stand by a few hundred United States marines |
| Chinese Revolution | the republican revolution against the Manchu dynasty in China, - |
| Russo-Japanese War | Japanese victory in the war with Russia (-) gave Japan power over Korea and Manchuria |
| form genus | an artificial taxonomic category established on the basis of morphological resemblance for organisms of obscure true relationships especially fossil forms |
| 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 |
Heliobacter
genus Heliobacter | a genus of helical or curved or straight aerobic bacteria with rounded ends and multiple flagella, found in the gastric mucosa of primates (including humans) |
| bacteria genus | a genus of bacteria |