The scaup duck.

A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

Somewhat black.

A notorious gambler.

To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a.

In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.

To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

See Blackamoor.

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting.

A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).

See Colicroot.

The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.

One who makes crude potash, or black salts.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.

A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.

A fish; the ruff or pope.

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. A species of Crat/gus or hawthorn (Crat/gus tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.

a bituminous material used for providing a smooth paving to a road.

paved with a bituminous material; -- of roads or paths; as, a blacktopped driveway.

same as defame.

A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells; -- used especially of blackwater fever, a severe form of malaria caused by the blood parasite Plasmodium falciparum.

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.

To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

similar to a bladder.

a medium-sized blackish-gray seal (Cystophora cristata) with a large inflatable sac on the head; of Arctic-Atlantic waters.

a North American wild lobelia (Lobelia inflata) having small blue flowers and inflated capsules formerly used as an antispasmodic.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

similar to and found with black rockweed.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

To put forth or have a blade.

The scapula. See Blade, 4.

Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife.

A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.

A sword cutler.

Consisting of blades.

Dark blue or bluish gray; lead-colored.

The bilberry.

Mendacious boasting; falsehood; humbug.

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister.

Deserving of censure; faulty; culpable; reprehensible; censurable; blameworthy.

An expression of disapprobation fir something deemed to be wrong; imputation of fault; censure.

same as blameworthy.

Faulty; meriting blame.

Free from blame; without fault; innocent; guiltless; -- sometimes followed by of.

In a blameless manner.

The quality or state of being blameless; innocence.

One who blames.

Deserving blame; culpable; reprehensible.

A white cosmetic.

A kind of linen cloth made in Normandy, the thread of which is partly blanched before it is woven.

Ore, not in masses, but mixed with other minerals.

One who, or that which, frightens away or turns aside.

An instrument for measuring the bleaching power of chloride of lime and potash; a chlorometer.

A sort of fricassee with white sauce, variously made of capon, fish, etc.

Flattery.

Mild, flattering speech.

Fair-spoken; flattering.

To blandish any one.

To flatter with kind words or affectionate actions; to caress; to cajole.

One who uses blandishments.

The act of blandishing; a word or act expressive of affection or kindness, and tending to win the heart; soft words and artful caresses; cajolery; allurement.

In a bland manner; mildly; suavely.

The state or quality of being bland.

To make void; to annul.

To cover with a blanket.

Cloth for blankets.

In a blank manner; without expression; vacuously; as, to stare blankly.

The state of being blank.

A white fricassee.

A large fish of Florida and the W. Indies (Caulolatilus chrysops). It is red, marked with yellow.

The harsh noise of a trumpet; a loud and somewhat harsh noise, like the blast of a trumpet; a roar or bellowing.

a genus of mammals consisting of the shrews.

harshly or unpleasantly loud (in sound intensity); -- used mostly of electronic entertainment devices, such as TV, radio, or phonograph.

Smooth, wheedling talk; flattery.

To influence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney.

Having the sensibilities deadened by excess or frequency of enjoyment; sated or surfeited with pleasure; uninterested because of frequent exposure or indulgence; used up.

To utter blasphemy.

One who blasphemes.

Speaking or writing blasphemy; uttering or exhibiting anything impiously irreverent; profane; as, a blasphemous person; containing blasphemy; as, a blasphemous book; a blasphemous caricature.

In a blasphemous manner.

An indignity offered to God in words, writing, or signs; impiously irreverent words or signs addressed to, or used in reference to, God; speaking evil of God; also, the act of claiming the attributes or prerogatives of deity.

To be blighted or withered; as, the bud blasted in the blossom.

to begin ascending from the ground under rocket power; -- of a rocket.

Blighted; withered.

The structureless, protoplasmic tissue of the embryo; the primitive basis of an organ yet unformed, from which it grows.

Relating to the blastema; rudimentary.

Connected with, or proceeding from, the blastema; blastemal.

One who, or that which, blasts or destroys.

A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

A blast; destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause.

A sudden stroke or injury produced by some destructive cause.

Germinating inside the pericarp, as the mangrove.

The cavity inside a blastula; -- also called segmentation cavity.

of or pertaining to a blastocoel.

The germinal vesicle.

an undifferentiated embryonic cell.

the early stage of an embryo after the first cleavages of the ovum; also, the layer of cells of which the early embryo is composed; the early embryo developing from a blastodisc, after the blastocoel has formed. in an insect embryo, the layer of cells that surrounds the internal mass of the yolk.

Of or pertaining to the blastoderm.

a disc-shaped layer of cells on the surface of the yolk mass of an egg (such as that of a bird) which develops to form the embryo.

the launching of a rocket, especially of a spacecraft, under its own power.

Multiplication or increase by gemmation or budding.

One of the Blastoidea.

One of the divisions of Crinoidea found fossil in paleozoic rocks; pentremites. They are so named on account of their budlike form.

One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.

any of various yeastlike budding fungi of the genus Blastomyces; -- they may cause disease in humans and other animals.

any of several fungal infections caused by blastomycetes; they are characterized by inflammatory lesions of skin and mucous membranes or internal organs.

of or pertaining to blastomycosis.

That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.

Relating to the blastophore.

The pore or opening leading into the cavity of invagination, or archenteron.

of or pertaining to a blastopore.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

In certain hydroids, an imperfect zooid, whose special function is to produce medusoid buds. See Hydroidea, and Athecata.