Word Meanings - NEGRO - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African
Additional info about word: NEGRO
A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.
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- THICKENING
Something put into a liquid or mass to make it thicker. - INHABITATE
To inhabit. - THICK WIND
A defect of respiration in a horse, that is unassociated with noise in breathing or with the signs of emphysema. - INHABITATIVENESS
A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country. - 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. - PERSONNEL
The body of persons employed in some public service, as the army, navy, etc.; -- distinguished from matériel. - PERSONIFICATION
A figure of speech in which an inanimate object or abstract idea is represented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton. (more info) 1. The act of personifying; - 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 - CRISPER
One who, or that which, crisps or curls; an instrument for making little curls in the nap of cloth, as in chinchilla. - 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. - AFRICANISM
A word, phrase, idiom, or custom peculiar to Africa or Africans. "The knotty Africanisms . . . of the fathers." Milton. - PROTRUDE
1. To thrust forward; to drive or force along. Locke. 2. To thrust out, as through a narrow orifice or from confinement; to cause to come forth. When . . . Spring protrudes the bursting gems. Thomson. - 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 - THICK-SKINNED
Having a thick skin; hence, not sensitive; dull; obtuse. Holland. - THICKNESS
The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective). - 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. - THICK-WINDED
Affected with thick wind. - TROPICALLY
In a tropical manner; figuratively; metaphorically. - BLACK LEAD
Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite. - PERSONIZE
To personify. Milton has personized them. J. Richardson. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - FRANKFORT BLACK
. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath. - MAGNASE BLACK
A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt. - UNIPERSONAL
Used in only one person, especially only in the third person, as some verbs; impersonal. (more info) 1. Existing as one, and only one, person; as, a unipersonal God. - SHOEBLACK
One who polishes shoes.