Word Meanings - BLACKBALL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work. 2. A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLACKBALL)

• Excommunicate
• Exclude
• banish
• bar
• eject
• blackball
• Ostracism
• Banishment
• expulsion

Related words: (words related to BLACKBALL)

• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• EJECTMENT
  A species of mixed action, which lies for the recovery of possession of real property, and damages and costs for the wrongful withholding of it. Wharton. (more info) 1. A casting out; a dispossession; an expulsion; ejection; as, the ejectment of
• EJECTA
  Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.
• EXCLUDE
  Etym: 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from
• EXPULSION
  1. The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc. The expulsion of the Tarquins. Shak. 2. The state of being expelled or driven out.
• BANISHMENT
  The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden. Syn. -- Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
• BLACKBALL
  1. A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work. 2. A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
• BANISHER
  One who banishes.
• EJECTION
  The act or process of discharging anything from the body, particularly the excretions. 3. The state of being ejected or cast out; dispossession; banishment. (more info) 1. The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation. "Vast
• EXCOMMUNICATE
  Excommunicated; interdicted from the rites of the church. -- n.
• BANISH
  1. To condemn to exile, or compel to leave one's country, by authority of the ruling power. "We banish you our territories." Shak. 2. To drive out, as from a home or familiar place; -- used with from and out of. How the ancient Celtic tongue came
• EJECT
  To cast out; to evict; to dispossess; as, to eject tenants from an estate. Syn. -- To expel; banish; drive out; discharge; oust; evict; dislodge; extrude; void. (more info) 1. To expel; to dismiss; to cast forth; to thrust or drive out;
• OSTRACISM
  Banishment by popular vote, -- a means adopted at Athens to rid the city of a person whose talent and influence gave umbrage. 2. Banishment; exclusion; as, social ostracism. Public envy is as an ostracism, that eclipseth men when they
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• REJECTER
  One who rejects.
• REBANISH
  To banish again.
• IRREJECTABLE
  That can not be rejected; irresistible. Boyle.
• REJECT
  re- + jacere to throw: cf. F. rejeter, formerly also spelt rejecter. 1. To cast from one; to throw away; to discard. Therefore all this exercise of hunting . . . the Utopians have rejected to their butchers. Robynson . Reject me not from among
• DEJECTURE
  That which is voided; excrements. Arbuthnot.
• DEJECTLY
  Dejectedly.
• REJECTANEOUS
  Not chosen orr received; rejected. "Profane, rejectaneous, and reprobate people." Barrow.
• REJECTION
  Act of rejecting, or state of being rejected.
• REJECTABLE
  Capable of being, or that ought to be, rejected.
• DEJECTER
  One who casts down, or dejects.
• REJECTIVE
  Rejecting, or tending to reject.