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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.

blarney. "Blarneyed the landlord." Irving. Had blarneyed his way from Long Island. S. G. Goodrich.

sacred, but held in high honor: To calumniate; to revile; to abuse. You do blaspheme the good in mocking me. Shak. Those who from our labors heap their board, Blaspheme their feeder and forget their lord. Pope.

picuous. On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.

stain or blot. Lest she . . . will with her railing set a great blur on mine honesty and good name. Udall.

To transport in a boat; as, to boat goods.

Hearty; in good spirits. [Low, Eng.] Dickens.

; to portend to presage; to foreshow. A raven that bodes nothing but mischief. Goldsmith. Good onset bodes good end. Spenser.

; -- usually in composition; as, able-bodied. A doe . . . not altogether so fat, but very good flesh and good bodied. Hakluyt.

Consistency; thickness; substance; strength; as, this color has body; wine of a good body.

Good; valid as security for something.

A good fellow; a jovial companion; a free liver.

Good will; good fellowship; agreement. [Scot.]

In or with good faith; without fraud or deceit; real or really; actual or actually; genuine or genuinely; as, you must proceed bona fide; a bona fide purchaser or transaction.

Good faith; honesty; freedom from fraud or deception.

Perishable goods. Bouvier.

The state of goods placed in a bonded warehouse till the duties are paid; as, merchandise in bond.

, a bond, as for the payment of duties, or for conformity to coertain regulations. Bonded goods, goods placed in a bonded warehouse; goods, for the duties on which bonds are given at the customhouse. -- Bonded warehouse, a warehouse in which goods on which the duties are unpaid are stored under bond and in the joint c…

One who places goods under bond or in a bonded warehouse.

good nature; pleasant and easy manner.