B Dictionary
black fly
In the United States a small venomous two winged fly of the genus Simulium of several species exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests called also buffalo gnat The larvaelig are aquatic It sucks the blood of birds as well as humans and other mammals...
Black footed ferret
a weasellike mammal Mustela nigripes inhabiting the western North American prairie having dark feet a dark tipped tail and a dark face on a yellowish brown coat It is an endangered species...
Black Friday
Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred as In England December 6 1745 when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London or May 11 1866 when a financial panic commenced In the United States September 24 1869 and September 18 1873 on which financial panics began...
Black game
Black game, heath fowl, in contradistinction to red game, as grouse, is 'game' (see that title) within the (English) Game Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4, c. 32), by s. 2 of that Act....
black haired
having black head hair of people...
Black Hamburg
A sweet and juicy variety of European grape of a dark purplish black color much grown under glass in northern latitudes...
Black Hand
A Spanish anarchistic society many of the members of which were imprisoned in 1883...
black hearted
Having a wicked malignant disposition morally bad...
black hole
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 called the Black Hole of Calcutta into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20 1765 and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air...
Black jack
A name given by English miners to sphalerite or zinc blende called also false galena See Blende...