BLACK-LEAD
BLACK'-LEAD, noun A mineral of a dark steel-gray color, and of a scaly texture, composed of carbon, with a small portion of iron. This name, black-lead is improper, as it contai...
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BLACKED
BLACK'ED, participle passive Made black; soiled.
BLACKEN
BLACK'EN, verb transitive1. To make black.The importation of slaves that has blackened half America.2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud.3. To soil.4. To sully reputation; to ma...
BLACKENER
BLACK'ENER, noun He that blackens.BLACK'-EYED, adjective Having black eyes.
BLACKING
BLACK'ING, participle present tense Making black.BLACK'ING, noun A substance used for blacking shoes, variously made; any factitious matter for making things black.
BLACKISH
BLACK'ISH, adjective Somewhat black; moderately black or dark.BLACK'-JACK, A name given by miners to blend, a mineral called also false galena, and blend. It is an ore of zink, ...
BLACKLY
BLACK'LY, adverb Darkly; atrociously.BLACK'-MAIL, noun A certain rate of money, corn, cattle or other thing, anciently paid, in the north of England, to certain men, who were al...
BLACKNESS
BLACK'NESS, noun The quality of being black; black color; darkness; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.BLACK'-PUDDING, noun A kind of food made of blood and grain.BLACK'-RO...
BLACKSEA
BLACK'SEA, noun [black and sea.] The Euxine Sea, on the eastern border of Europe.BLACK'-SHEEP, noun [black and sheep.] In oriental history, the ensign or standard of a race of T...
BLACKSMITH
BLACK'SMITH, noun [black and smith.] A smith who works in iron, and makes iron utensils; more properly, an iron-smith.Black'-strakes, in a ship, are a range of planks immediatel...
BLADDER
BLAD'DER, noun [Eng.a blade; Latin latus.]1. A thin membranous bag in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some secreted fluid, as the urinary bladder the gall bladder etc...
BLADDER-NUT
BLAD'DER-NUT, noun [bladder and nut.] A genus of plants, with the generic name of Staphyloea. They have three capsules, inflated and joined by a longitudinal suture.1. The Afric...
BLADDER-SENNA
BLAD'DER-SENNA, or bastard-senna, a genus of plants, called in botany Colutea.The jointed-podded bladder-senna is the Coronilla.
BLADDERED
BLAD'DERED, adjective Swelled like a bladder.
BLADDERY
BLAD'DERY, adjective Resembling a bladder; containing bladders.
BLADE
BLADE, noun [Gr.broad.]1. The stalk or spire of a plant, particularly of grass and corn; but applicable to the stalk of any herbaceous plant, whether green or dry.2. A leaf. In ...
BLADE-BONE
BLA'DE-BONE, noun The scapula, or upper bone in the shoulder.
BLADE-SMITH
BLA'DE-SMITH, noun A sword cutler.
BLADED
BLA'DED, participle passive Having a blade or blades. It may be used of blade in the sense of a leaf, a spire, or the cutting part of an instrument.1. In mineralogy, composed of...
BLAIN
BLAIN, noun A pustule; a botch; a blister. In farriery, a bladder growing on the root of the tongue, against the wind pipe, which swells so as to stop the breath.
BLAMABLE
BLA'MABLE, adjective [See Blame.] Faulty; culpable; reprehensible; deserving of censure.
BLAMABLENESS
BLA'MABLENESS, noun Culpableness; fault; the state of being worthy of censure.
BLAMABLY
BLA'MABLY, adverb Culpably; in a manner deserving of censure.
BLAME
BLAME, verb transitive [The Greeks have the root of this word, to blaspheme.]1. To censure; to express disapprobation of; to find fault with; opposed to praise or commend, and a...
BLAMED
BLA'MED, participle passive Censured; disapproved.
BLAMEFUL
BLA'MEFUL, adjective Faulty; meriting blame; reprehensible.
BLAMELESS
BLA'MELESS, adjective Without fault; innocent; guiltless; not meriting censure.A bishop then must be blameless 1 Timothy 3:2.Sometimes followed by of.We will be blameless of thi...