B Dictionary
Black a vised
Dark visaged swart...
Black Act
Black Act, 9 Geo. 1, c. 22 (English), so called because it was occasioned by the outrages committed by persons with their faces blacked or otherwise disguised, who appeared in Epping Forest, near Waltham, in Essex, and destroyed the deer there, and committed divers other enormities. Repealed by 7 & 8 Geo. 4, c. 27....
Black Acts
Black Acts (English), Acts printed in the old black letter during the dynasty of the Stuarts in Scotland....
black and blue
discolored by or as if by bruising of skin...
black and white
print or writing especially the result of the printing process...
Black art
The art practiced by conjurers and witches necromancy conjuration magic...
Black bass
An edible fresh water fish of the United States of the genus Micropterus The small mouthed kind is Micropterus dolomieimacr the large mouthed is Micropterus salmoides...
Black belt
a comedy that treats of morbid tragic gloomy or grotesque situations as a major element of the plot...
Black book
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...
Black book
Black book, a book kept in the Exchequer, and at the Admiralty....