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<hw>Black" book`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <p><b>1.</b> <def>One of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents.</def>

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<p><b>2.</b> <def>A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III.</def>

<i>Bouvier. Wharton.</i>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.</def>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Any book which treats of necromancy.</def>

<h1>Black-browed</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"-browed`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.</def>

<i>Shak. Dryden.</i>

<h1>Blackburnian warbler</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black*bur"ni*an war"bler</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[Named from Mrs. <ets>Blackburn</ets>, an English lady.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>A beautiful warbler of the United States (<spn>Dendroica Blackburni\'91</spn>). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.</def>

<h1>Blackcap</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"cap`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <sd>(a)</sd> <def>A small European song bird (<spn>Sylvia atricapilla</spn>), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.</def> <sd>(b)</sd> <def>An American titmouse (<spn>Parus atricapillus</spn>); the chickadee.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Cookery)</fld> <def>An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>The black raspberry.</def>

<h1>Blackcoat</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"coat`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a <i>redcoat</i> or a <i>bluecoat</i>.</def>

<h1>Blackcock</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"cock`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The male of the European black grouse (<spn>Tetrao tetrix</spn>, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called <i>gray hen</i>. See <er>Heath grouse</er>.</def>

<h1>Black death</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black" death`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.</def>

<h1>Blacken</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blackened</er> <tt>(#)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blackening</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Black</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, and cf. <er>Black</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt> ]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make or render black.</def>

<blockquote>While the long funerals <b>blacken</b> all the way. <h1>Pope</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Pope</hw><def>.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To make dark; to darken; to cloud.</def> "<i>Blackened</i> the whole heavens."