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<A NAME="blackfish">
<B>blackfish, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fishes</B> or (collectively) <B>-fish.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of various dark-colored fishes, such as the sea bass or the tautog. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a small, dolphinlike black whale; pilot whale. <DD><B> b. </B><B>=killer whale.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B>a small, edible, freshwater fish of Alaska and Siberia. It is able to survive below freezing water temperatures for a certain amount of time. <DD><B> 4. </B>a salmon after spawning. </DL>
<A NAME="blackflag">
<B>black flag,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the pirate's flag; Jolly Roger; blackjack. It usually had a white skull and crossbones on it. <DD><B> 2. </B>a flag of black cloth hoisted to show that a person condemned to death has been executed. </DL>
<A NAME="blackflag">
<B>black-flag, </B>transitive verb, <B>-flagged,</B> <B>-flagging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (in car races) to signal (a car or driver) to leave the course by waving a black flag. <BR> <I>Ex. Chief Steward Harlan Fengler had warned drivers that any car spraying oil would be "black-flagged" instantly (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="blackfly">
<B>black fly,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small fly with a black body, found in most parts of the world. The female can inflict a very painful bite. <DD><B> 2. </B>a minute insect that attacks citrus fruit trees. </DL>
<A NAME="blackfoot">
<B>Blackfoot, </B>noun, pl. <B>-feet</B> or <B>-foot</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (for 1,) adj. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a member of a tribe of American Indians that formerly lived in the northwestern United States and southern Canada and now live on reservations in Montana and Alberta, Canada. The Blackfoot speak an Algonkian language. <DD><B> 2. </B>the Algonkian language of the Blackfoot Indians of North America. <DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with the Blackfoot or their language. </DL>
<A NAME="blackfootedferret">
<B>black-footed ferret,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a weasel of the western United States, with a brown body and black feet. </DL>
<A NAME="blackfox">
<B>black fox,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a variety of red fox with a black fur. </DL>
<A NAME="blackfriar">
<B>Black Friar,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a Dominican friar, so called from the black mantle worn by the order. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=Black Monk.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="blackfriars">
<B>Blackfriars, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a locality in the center of London, southwest of St. Paul's. </DL>
<A NAME="blackfriday">
<B>Black Friday,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any Friday when some calamity happens, such as September 24, 1869, and September 19, 1873, dates of financial crises in the United States. <DD><B> 2. </B>Good Friday (so called because on that day the vestments of the clergy are black). </DL>
<A NAME="blackfrost">
<B>black frost,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a very hard frost; killing frost (from the fact that some of the green vegetation is turned black or dark by it). </DL>
<A NAME="blackgame">
<B>black game,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (British.) black grouse. The male is called <I>blackcock,</I> and the female, <I>gray hen.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="blackglass">
<B>black glass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an opaque glass containing manganese iron. </DL>
<B>black gram,</B> <B>=urd </B>(a bean of India).</DL>
<A NAME="blackgrass">
<B>black grass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a species of foxtail grass. <DD><B> 2. </B>a species of rush growing in salt marshes in the United States. </DL>
<A NAME="blackgrouse">
<B>black grouse,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large grouse of Europe and Asia; heathbird. The male is black with white markings and a curled tail. The female is smaller and is brown and gray. </DL>
<A NAME="blackguard">
<B>blackguard, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a low, contemptible man; scoundrel. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to abuse with vile language; revile. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to behave like a blackguard. </DL>
<B>blackguardly, </B>adjective, adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or like a blackguard. </DL>
<A NAME="blackguillemot">
<B>black guillemot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a guillemot of both the American and European coasts of the North Atlantic, mostly black in its summer plumage, with red feet. </DL>
<A NAME="blackgum">
<B>black gum,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large North American tree, a tupelo, bearing long-stemmed, dark-blue berries; black tupelo; pepperidge. </DL>
<A NAME="blackhand">
<B>Black Hand,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(U.S.) a secret society organized to commit blackmail and crimes of violence. <DD><B> 2. </B>an anarchistic society in Spain, broken up in 1883. </DL>
<A NAME="blackhaw">
<B>black haw,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a North American shrub of the honeysuckle family, having large clusters (cymes) of white flowers and a bright blue-black fruit (drupe); stagbush. <DD><B> 2. </B>a similar shrub, the sheepberry. </DL>
<A NAME="blackhead">
<B>blackhead, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a small, black-tipped lump of dead cells and oil plugging a pore of the skin; comedo. <DD><B> 2. </B>any of various birds that have a black head. <DD><B> 3. </B>Often, <B>blackhead disease.</B> an acute infectious disease of the intestines and liver of turkeys, chickens, and other fowl, caused by a protozoan parasite. </DL>
<A NAME="blackheadedgrosbeak">
<B>black-headed grosbeak,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a grosbeak of western North America. </DL>
<A NAME="blackheadedgull">
<B>black-headed gull,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of several gulls with a black head, such as the laughing gull. </DL>
<A NAME="blackheart">
<B>blackheart, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a disease of plants, especially of potatoes and certain trees, characterized by a blackening of the internal tissues. <DD><B> 2. </B>a variety of cherry whose sweet, somewhat heart-shaped fruit has a blackish skin. </DL>
<B>black hole,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a hypothetical hole in outer space into which energy and stars and other heavenly matter collapse and disappear. <BR> <I>Ex. If the theory can be believed, the final outcome of this process in nature is a "black hole" in space into which matter can be said to have vanished, leaving, however, all its gravitational effects behind (Tom Alexander).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a place of punishment; a dungeon (from Black Hole of Calcutta, where English prisoners were held in 1756). </DL>
<A NAME="blackhorehound">
<B>black horehound,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an ill-smelling European plant of the mint family, found in waste land. </DL>
<A NAME="blackhumor">
<B>black humor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a morbid or bizarre form of humor, especially in novels and plays. <BR> <I>Ex. Some writers, of course, take up black humor for just one novel (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="blackhumorist">
<B>black humorist,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a writer of black humor. </DL>
<A NAME="blackice">
<B>black ice,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> very smooth ice that is hard to see or that looks black at certain angles. </DL>
<A NAME="blacking">
<B>blacking, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a black polish used on shoes and stoves. </DL>
<B>black ivory,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (formerly) blacks as an article of traffic for slave traders in Africa. </DL>
<A NAME="blackjack">
<B>blackjack, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a club with a flexible handle, used as a weapon. <DD><B> 2. </B>the black flag of a pirate; Jolly Roger. <DD><B> 3. </B>a small oak of the eastern United States that has a bark that is almost black. <DD><B> 4. </B>a card game in which the players draw cards face down from the dealer, trying for a score of not more than 21 points; the game of twenty-one. <DD><B> 5. </B>caramel or burnt sugar used for coloring spirits, vinegar, and coffee. <DD><B> 6. </B>native zinc sulfide; sphalerite; zinc blende. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Archaic.) a large drinking cup or jug, formerly made of leather. <BR> <I>Ex. ... his nose doth show How oft the blackjack to his lips doth go (old song).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to hit (a person) with a blackjack. <DD><B> 2. </B>to coerce. </DL>
<A NAME="blackknight">
<B>black knight,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Finance.) a company that makes a tender offer to forcibly gain control of another company. </DL>
<A NAME="blackknot">
<B>black knot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a destructive disease of fruit trees, characterized by large, black, knot-like growths on the branches, caused by a fungus. </DL>
<A NAME="blackland">
<B>blackland, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tract of dark-colored land, found in parts of the southern United States, especially in Texas. </DL>
<A NAME="blacklark">
<B>black lark,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large Eurasian lark, the male of which is entirely black. </DL>
<A NAME="blacklead">
<B>black lead,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> graphite, a soft, black form of carbon; graphite. It is used for lead in pencils, for lubricating machinery, and as a polish. (SYN) plumbago. </DL>
<A NAME="blackleg">
<B>blackleg, </B>noun, verb, <B>-legged,</B> <B>-legging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>(Informal.) a swindler. <DD><B> 2. </B>(British.) a worker who takes a striker's job; strikebreaker; scab. <DD><B> 3. </B>an infectious, usually fatal disease of cattle and sheep, caused by a bacterium and characterized by gaseous swelling of the muscles, especially on the upper parts of the legs. <DD><B> 4. </B>a destructive disease of cabbage plants, in which the stems shrink and become black, causing the plant to die. <DD><I>v.i. </I> (British.) to act as a blackleg or strikebreaker. <BR> <I>Ex. The International Union of Electricity ... had to accept GE's first and only offer when many of its members blacklegged (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
