Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter B - Page 49
Biweekly (n.) 雙週刊；半週刊 A publication issued every two weeks ; fortnightly. -- n. A publication issued every two weeks. -- Bi"week"ly, adv.
Biweekly (adv.) Twice a week; "he called home semiweekly" [syn: semiweekly, biweekly].
Biweekly (adv.) Every two weeks; "he visited his cousins fortnightly" [syn: fortnightly, biweekly].
Biweekly (a.) Occurring every two weeks [syn: fortnightly, biweekly].
Biweekly (a.) Occurring twice a week [syn: semiweekly, biweekly].
Biweekly (n.) A periodical that is published twice a week or every two weeks (either 104 or 26 issues per year).
Biwreye (v. t.) To bewray; to reveal. [Obs.]
Bizantine () See Byzantine.
Bizarre (a.) 奇異的；異乎尋常的 Odd in manner or appearance; fantastic; whimsical; extravagant; grotesque. -- C. Kingsley.
Bizarre (a.) Conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; "restaurants of bizarre design--one like a hat, another like a rabbit"; "famed for his eccentric spelling"; "a freakish combination of styles"; "his off-the-wall antics"; "the outlandish clothes of teenagers"; "outre and affected stage antics" [syn: bizarre, eccentric, freakish, freaky, flaky, flakey, gonzo, off-the-wall, outlandish, outre].
Bizet (n.) The upper faceted portion of a brilliant-cut diamond, which projects from the setting and occupies the zone between the girdle and the table. See Brilliant, n.
Bizet (n.) French composer best known for his operas (1838-1875) [syn: Bizet, Georges Bizet].
Bizzy (n.) (pl. -zies) (British slang, mainly Liverpool ) [英俚] 警察 A policeman.
Blabbed (imp. & p. p.) of Blab.
Blabbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blab.
Blab (v. t.) To utter or tell unnecessarily, or in a thoughtless manner; to publish (secrets or trifles) without reserve or discretion; -- sometimes used with out. -- Udall.
And yonder a vile physician blabbing The case of his patient. -- Tennyson.
Blab (v. i.) To talk thoughtlessly or without discretion; to tattle; to tell tales.
She must burst or blab. -- Dryden.
Blab (n.) One who blabs; a babbler; a telltale. "Avoided as a blab." -- Milton.
For who will open himself to a blab or a babbler. -- Bacon.
Blab (v.) Divulge confidential information or secrets; "Be careful--his secretary talks" [syn: spill the beans, let the cat out of the bag, talk, tattle, blab, peach, babble, sing, babble out, blab out] [ant: keep one's mouth shut, keep quiet, shut one's mouth].
Blab (v.) Speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly [syn: chatter, piffle, palaver, prate, tittle-tattle, twaddle, clack, maunder, prattle, blab, gibber, tattle, blabber, gabble].
Blabber (n.) A tattler; a telltale.
Black (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
Black (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. -- Shak.
Black (n.) A black pigment or dye.
Black (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
Black (n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black ; pl. (Obs.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. -- Bacon.
That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. -- Sir T. North.
Black (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
Black (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
The black or sight of the eye. -- Sir K. Digby.
Black (n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.
Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. -- Rowley.
Black and white, Writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white.
Blue black, A pigment of a blue black color.
Ivory black, A fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing.
Berlin black. See under Berlin.
Blacked (imp. & p. p.) of Black.
Blacking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Black.
Black (v. t.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. -- Hakluyt.
Sins which black thy soul. -- J. Fletcher.
Black (v. t.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
Black (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
O night, with hue so black! -- Shak.
Black (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. -- Shak.
Black (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black day." "Black despair." -- Shak.
Black (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words; as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired, black-visaged.
Black act, The English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts.
Black angel (Zool.), A fish of the West Indies and Florida ({Holacanthus tricolor), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black.
Black antimony (Chem.), The black sulphide of antimony, Sb2S3, used in pyrotechnics, etc.
Black bear (Zool.), The common American bear ({Ursus Americanus).
Black beast. See B[^e]te noire.
Black beetle (Zool.), The common large cockroach ({Blatta orientalis).
Black bonnet (Zool.), The black-headed bunting ({Embriza Sch[oe]niclus) of Europe.
Black canker, A disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar.
Black cat (Zool.), The fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See Fisher.
Black cattle, Any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in distinction from dairy cattle. [Eng.]
Black cherry. See under Cherry.
Black cockatoo (Zool.), The palm cockatoo. See Cockatoo.
Black copper. Same as Melaconite.
Black currant. (Bot.) See Currant.
Black diamond. (Min.) See Carbonado.
Black draught (Med.), A cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia.
Black drop (Med.), Vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar.
Black earth, Mold; earth of a dark color. --Woodward.
Black flag, The flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance.
Black+flea+(Zool.),+A+flea+beetle+({Haltica+nemorum">Black flea (Zool.), a flea beetle ({Haltica nemorum) injurious to turnips.
Black flux, A mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter. -- Brande & C.
Black Forest [a translation of G. Schwarzwald], A forest in Baden and W["u]rtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest.
Black game, or Black grouse. (Zool.) See Blackcock, Grouse, and Heath grouse.
Black grass (Bot.), A grasslike rush of the species Juncus Gerardi, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay.
Black gum (Bot.), An American tree, the tupelo or pepperidge. See Tupelo.
Black Hamburg (grape) (Bot.), A sweet and juicy variety of dark purple or "black" grape.
Black horse (Zool.), A fish of the Mississippi valley ({Cycleptus elongatus), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker.
Black lemur (Zool.), The Lemurniger of Madagascar; the acoumbo of the natives.
Black list, A list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See Blacklist, v. t.
Black manganese (Chem.), The black oxide of manganese, MnO2.
Black Maria, The close wagon in which prisoners are carried to or from jail.
Black martin (Zool.), The chimney swift. See Swift.
Black moss (Bot.), The common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See Tillandsia.
Black oak. See under Oak.
Black ocher. See Wad.
Black pigment, A very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar.
Black plate, Sheet iron before it is tinned. -- Knight.
Black quarter, Malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox.
Black rat (Zool.), One of the species of rats ({Mus rattus), commonly infesting houses.
Black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3.
Black rust, A disease of wheat, in which a black, moist matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain.
Black sheep, One in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble.
Black silver. (Min.) See under Silver.
Black and tan, Black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of dogs.
Black tea. See under Tea.
Black tin (Mining), Tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand. -- Knight.
Black walnut. See under Walnut.
Black+warrior+(Zool.),+An+American+hawk+({Buteo+Harlani">Black warrior (Zool.), an American hawk ({Buteo Harlani).
Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart; Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious.
Black (a.) Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" [ant: white].
Black (a.) Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. [ant: white].
Black (a.) Marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words".
Black (a.) Offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult" -- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" [syn: black, bleak, dim].
Black (a.) Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: black, dark, sinister].
Black (a.) (Of events) Having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory" -- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"-- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful].
Black (a.) (Of the face) Made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" [syn: black, blackened].
Black (a.) Extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch- black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" [syn: black, pitch-black, pitch-dark].
Black (a.) Harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, grim, mordant].
Black (a.) (Of intelligence operations) Deliberately misleading; "black propaganda".
Black (a.) Distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" [syn: bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled].
Black (a.) (Used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands" -- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" [syn: black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful].
Black (a.) (Of coffee) Without cream or sugar.
Black (a.) Soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: black, smutty].
Black (n.) The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn:
black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white, whiteness].
Black (n.) Total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black].
Black (n.) British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) [syn: Black, Joseph Black].
Black (n.) Popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) [syn: Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple].
Black (n.) A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid].
Black (n.) (Board games) The darker pieces [ant: white].
Black (n.) Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black".
Black (v.) Make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black] [ant: white, whiten].
Blackamoor (n.) A negro or negress.
Black art () The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.
Black-a-vised (a.) Dark-visaged; swart.
Blackball (n.) A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.
Blackball (n.) A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; -- in this sense usually two words.
Blackballed (imp. & p. p.) of Blackball
Blackballing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackball
Blackball (v. t.) To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.
Blackball (v. t.) To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.
Blackband (n.) An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.
Black bass () An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the large-mouthed is M. salmoides.
Black bass () The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.
Blackberry (n.) The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds.
Blackbird (n.) In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.
Blackboard (n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.
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 () A book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc.
Black book () A book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution.
Black book () A book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III.
Black book () A book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies.
Black book () Any book which treats of necromancy.
Black-browed (a.) Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding.
Blackburnian warbler () A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniae). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.
Blackcap (n.) A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.
Blackcap (n.) An American titmouse (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
Blackcap (n.) An apple roasted till black, to be served in a dish of boiled custard.
Blackcap (n.) The black raspberry.
Blackcoat (n.) A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.
Blackcock (n.) The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); -- so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.
Black death () A pestilence which ravaged Europe and Asia in the fourteenth century.
Blackened (imp. & p. p.) of Blacken.
Blackening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blacken.
Blacken (v. t.) To make or render black.
Blacken (v. t.) To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
Blacken (v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
Blacken (v. i.) To grow black or dark.
Blackener (n.) One who blackens.
Black-eyed (a.) Having black eyes.
Black-faced (a.) Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
Blackfeet (n. pl.) A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.
Blackfin (n.) See Bluefin.
Black Fiveday (n.) [C, usually singular] 黑色星期五 (購物) The five-day period around Thanksgiving, when shops reduce the price of goods in order to attract customers
But part of the reason for the soaring spending figures is because retailers are stretching the November promotional period for longer than ever before. Last year saw the introduction of the ghastly “Black Fiveday” to festive vocabulary as retailers started to discount from five consecutive days from the Thursday before to “Cyber Monday”.
Blackfish (n.) A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
Blackfish (n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
Blackfish (n.) The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.
Blackfish (n.) A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.
Blackfish (n.) The female salmon in the spawning season.
Blackfoot (a.) Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian.
Blackfoot (n.) A Blackfoot Indian.
Black friar () A friar of the Dominican order; -- called also predicant and preaching friar; in France, Jacobin. Also, sometimes, a Benedictine.
Blackguard (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.
Blackguard (n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
Blackguard (n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
Blackguard (n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
Blackguarded (imp. & p. p.) of Blackguard.
Blackguarding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Blackguard.
Blackguard (v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
Blackguard (a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
Blackguardism (n.) The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism.
Blackguardly (adv. & a.) In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.
Blackhead (n.) The scaup duck.
Blackheart (n.) A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.
Black-hearted (a.) 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, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
Blacking (n.) Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
Blacking (n.) The act or process of making black.
Blackish (a.) Somewhat black.
Black-jack (n.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
Black-jack (n.) Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
Black-jack (n.) A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
Black-jack (n.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
Black-jack (n.) The ensign of a pirate.
Black lead () Plumbago; graphite. It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
Blacklead (v. t.) To coat or to polish with black lead.