B Dictionary
black tie
requiring semiformal evening clothes e g a black bowtie and a tuxedo or dinner jacket for men and a formal dress for women contrasted with white tie for a fully formal occasion and with informal and casual...
Black vomit
A copious vomiting of dark colored matter or the substance so discharged one of the most fatal symptoms in yellow fever...
Black ward
Black ward, a sub-vassal, who held ward of the king's vassal....
Black wash
A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water...
Black-leg
Black-leg. To call a man a 'black-leg' is not actionable unless it can be shown that the word was understood by the bystanders to mean 'a cheating gambler liable to be prosecuted as such', Barnett v. Allen, (1858) 3 H&N 376. The term is applied to a man who refuses to join, or follow the ruling of, a Trades Union in times of disputes between employer and employee....
black-letter
black-letter : having wide acceptance and great authority and often written down [ law] ...
Boracous
Relating to or obtained from borax containing borax...
Borage
A mucilaginous plant of the genus Borago B officinalis which is used esp in France as a demulcent and diaphoretic...
Boragewort
Plant of the Borage family...
But
Except with unless with without...