B Dictionary
Black monk
A Benedictine monk...
Black mouthed
Using foul or scurrilous language slanderous...
black out
to experience a temporary loss of consciousness memory or vision...
Black pudding
A kind of sausage made of blood suet etc thickened with meal...
Black Rod
the usher to the Chapter of the Garter so called from the black rod which he carries He is of the kings chamber and also usher to the House of Lords...
Black Rod, Gentleman Usher of
Black Rod, Gentleman Usher of, a chief officer of the king, deriving his name from the Black Rod of office which he carries, and on the top of which reposes a golden lion. During the session of Parliament he attends on the peers, and to his custody all peers impeached for any crime or contempt are first committed, Consult May, Parl. Pr....
Black salts
Crude potash...
Black snake
A snake of a black color of which two species are common in the United States the Bascanium constrictor or racer sometimes six feet long and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis seven or eight feet long...
Black Spanish
One of an old and well known Mediterranean breed of domestic fowls with glossy black plumage blue legs and feet bright red comb and wattles and white face They are remarkable as egg layers...
Black stone lawyer
Black stone lawyer, means a lawyer with a broad knowledge of blackletter principles; A self-educated lawyer (especially in antebellum America) whose legal training consists primarily of reading Blackstone's Commentaries, Black Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 163....