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Blacklist :: Blacklist (v. t.) To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a..

Tartarian :: Tartarian (n.) The name of some kinds of cherries, as the Black Tartarian, or the White Tartarian..

Melanosperm :: Melanosperm (n.) An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp..

Sphalerite :: Sphalerite (n.) Zinc sulphide; -- called also blende, black-jack, false galena, etc. See Blende (a)..

Crowberry :: Crowberry (n.) A heathlike plant of the genus Empetrum, and its fruit, a black, scarcely edible berry; -- also called crakeberry..

Tillandsia :: Tillandsia (n.) A genus of epiphytic endogenous plants found in the Southern United States and in tropical America. Tillandsia usneoides, called long moss, black moss, Spanish moss, and Florida moss, has a very slender pendulous branching stem, and forms great hanging tufts on the branches of trees. It is often used for stuffing mattresses..

Griseous :: Griseous (a.) Of a light color, or white, mottled with black or brown; grizzled or grizzly..

Coleperch :: Coleperch (n.) A kind of small black perch.

Kirschwasser :: Kirschwasser (n.) An alcoholic liquor, obtained by distilling the fermented juice of the small black cherry..

Grass Tree :: Grass tree () An Australian plant of the genus Xanthorrhoea, having a thick trunk crowned with a dense tuft of pendulous, grasslike leaves, from the center of which arises a long stem, bearing at its summit a dense flower spike looking somewhat like a large cat-tail. These plants are often called blackboys from the large trunks denuded and blackened by fire. They yield two kinds of fragrant resin, called Botany-bay gum, and Gum Acaroides..

Nigrescent :: Nigrescent (a.) Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness.

Skiddaw :: Skiddaw (n.) The black guillemot.

Flint :: Flint (n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel..

Blende :: Blende (n.) A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous..

Split :: Split (n.) the division by a player of one hand of blackjack into two hands, allowed when the first two cards dealt to a player have the same value; the player is usually obliged to increase the amount wagered by placing a sum equal to the original bet on the new hand thus created..

Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally..

Besmut :: Besmut (v. t.) To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.

Bobolink :: Bobolink (n.) An American singing bird (Dolichonyx oryzivorus). The male is black and white; the female is brown; -- called also, ricebird, reedbird, and Boblincoln..

Ilvaite :: Ilvaite (n.) A silicate of iron and lime occurring in black prismatic crystals and columnar masses.

Raven :: Raven (a.) Of the color of the raven; jet black; as, raven curls; raven darkness..

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