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Word Meanings - BOMBAZINE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A twilled fabric for dresses, of which the warp is silk, and the weft worsted. Black bombazine has been much used for mourning garments. Tomlinson. (more info) bombycinus silken, bombycinum a silk or cotton texture, fr. bombyx

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  • 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.
  • BLACKEN
    Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
  • MOURNFUL
    Full of sorrow; expressing, or intended to express, sorrow; mourning; grieving; sad; also, causing sorrow; saddening; grievous; as, a mournful person; mournful looks, tones, loss. -- Mourn"ful*ly, adv. -- Mourn"ful*ness, n. Syn. -- Sorrowful;
  • COTTONY
    1. Covered with hairs or pubescence, like cotton; downy; nappy; woolly. 2. Of or pertaining to cotton; resembling cotton in appearance or character; soft, like cotton.
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • BLACK FLAGS
    An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
  • BLACK-JACK
    A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
  • BLACK LEAD
    Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
  • BLACK HOLE
    A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which
  • BLACK FRIDAY
    Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and
  • WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
    Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
  • BLACK BASS
    1. An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the largemouthed is M. salmoides. 2. The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.
  • BLACK-FACED
    Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
  • COTTONADE
    A somewhat stoun and thick fabric of cotton.
  • BLACKFOOT
    Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. -- n.
  • TWILL
    To weave, as cloth, so as to produce the appearance of diagonal lines or ribs on the surface. (more info) two; akin to AS. twi-, E. twi- in twilight. See Twice, and cf. Tweed,
  • FABRICATE
    1. To form into a whole by uniting its parts; to frame; to construct; to build; as, to fabricate a bridge or ship. 2. To form by art and labor; to manufacture; to produce; as, to fabricate woolens. 3. To invent and form; to forge; to
  • BLACKLEG
    1. A notorious gambler. 2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.
  • MOURNING
    1. The act of sorrowing or expressing grief; lamentation; sorrow. 2. Garb, drapery, or emblems indicative of grief, esp. clothing or a badge of somber black. The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning
  • BLACK-EYED SUSAN
    The coneflower, or yellow daisy . The bladder ketmie.
  • FRANKFORT BLACK
    . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
  • INFABRICATED
    Not fabricated; unwrought; not artificial; natural.
  • MAGNASE BLACK
    A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
  • SHOEBLACK
    One who polishes shoes.
  • JET-BLACK
    Black as jet; deep black.
  • BRUNSWICK BLACK
    See BLACK

 

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