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<hw>Black"guard</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Black</ets> + <ets>guard</ets>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the <b>black guard</b> in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. <i>Webster (1612).</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.</def>

<blockquote>A man whose manners and sentiments are decidedly below those of his class deserves to be called a <b>blackguard</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Blackguard</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"guard`</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blackguarded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blackguarding</er>.]</wordforms> <def>To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.</def>

<i>Southey.</i>

<h1>Blackguard</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"guard</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; <as>as, <ex>blackguard</ex> language</as>.</def>

<h1>Blackguardism</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"guard*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.</def>

<h1>Blackguardly</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"guard*ly</hw>, <tt>adv. & a.</tt> <def>In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.</def>

<h1>Blackhead</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"head`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The scaup duck.</def>

<h1>Blackheart</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"heart`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.</def>

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

<hw>Black"-heart`ed</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad.</def>

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

<hw>Black" hole`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <def>A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.</def>

<blockquote>A discipline of unlimited autocracy, upheld by rods, and ferules, and the <b>black hole</b>. <i>H. Spencer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Blacking</h1> <Xpage=151>

<hw>Black"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The act or process of making black.</def>

<h1>Blackish</h1> <Xpage=151>