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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...



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