1. 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.
2. Soot flying in the air. [Eng.]
3. Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
Blacksalter
(Black"salt`er) n. One who makes crude potash, or black salts.
Black salts
(Black" salts`) Crude potash. De Colange.
Blacksmith
(Black"smith`) n. [Black (in allusion to the color of the metal) + smith. Cf. Whitesmith.]
1. A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
The blacksmith may forge what he pleases.
Howell.
2. (Zoöl.) A fish of the Pacific coast of a blackish color.
Black snake
(Black" snake` (snak) or Black"snake), n. (Zoöl.) 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.
The name is also applied to various other black serpents, as Natrix atra of Jamaica.
Blackstrap
(Black"strap`) n.
1. A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop.
Judd.
2. Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; — so called by sailors.
Blacktail
(Black"tail`) n. [Black + tail.]
1. (Zoöl.) A fish; the ruff or pope.
2. (Zoöl.) The black-tailed deer (Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the
mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.
Blackthorn
(Black"thorn`) n. (Bot.) (a) A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with
blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe. (b) A species of Cratægus
or hawthorn Both are used for hedges.
Black vomit
(Black" vom"it) (Med.) A copious vomiting of dark-colored matter; or the substance so discharged; —
one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever.
Black wash
(Black" wash` or Black"wash), n.
1. (Med.) A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.
2. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.
To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be
seen.
C. Kingsley.
