Chapter Bill of exchange to Blattering of B by Soule's Synonymes

Black, a.

1. Dark, ebon, inky, atramentous, swarthy.

2. Murky, dusky, pitchy, dingy, Cimmerian, lowering.

3. Dismal, sullen, forbidding, gloomy, dark, depressing, doleful, sombre, mournful, disastrous, calamitous.

4. Wicked, atrocious, villanous, infamous, nefarious, heinous, flagitious, diabolic, infernal, hellish, fiendish, devilish, outrageous, monstrous, horrible.

Black, n.

1. Black color.

2. Mourning, black garments.

3. Negro, blackamoor, black man, moor, blackey.

Blackamoor, n. Negro, black, black man, moor, blackey.

Black art. Magic, conjuration, sorcery, diabolic art, necromancy, witchcraft, witchery, black magic (in contrast to white, or innocent), magical art.

Blackball, v. a. Exclude (by black balls), reject (by a negative vote).

Blackcap, n. Blackcap warbler, mock-nightingale (Corucca or Curruca atricapilla).

Black-coat, n. Clergyman, minister, divine, pastor, priest.

Blackcock, n. Heath-cock, black-grouse, black-game (Tetrao tetrix).

Blacken, v. a.

1. Darken, make black.

2. Sully, deface, soil, defile, darken, stain.

3. Vilify, defame, slander, calumniate, asperse, traduce, malign, besmirch, revile, rail at, sneer at, run down, speak ill of. See abuse.

Blacken, v. n. Grow black, darken, gloom, lower, threaten.

Blackfish, n. Tautog (Labrus Americanus).

Blackfriar, n. Benedictine, dominican, predicant, jacobin, preaching friar, frère précheur.