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An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; -- valuable as an iron ore.

t 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.

rle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelæus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing.

A slave ship; a slaver. [Colloq.] F. T. Bullen.

The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.

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.

A beautiful warbler of the United States (Dendroica Blackburniæ). The male is strongly marked with orange, yellow, and black on the head and neck, and has an orange-yellow breast.

A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope

One who blackens.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

See Bluefin.

The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. -- n.

ad 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. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

The scaup duck.