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nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.

A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia. Balfour.

Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths. Knight.

See Bone black, under Bone, n.

One who blacks boots.

See Japan black.

A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.

The ground or place for burying the dead; burial place.

A retired or private place.

A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking. Johnson.

consisting of, or containing, calcareous and argillaceous earths.

Of pertaining to, or resembling, the family of plants (Camponulaceæ) of which Campanula is the type, and which includes the Canterbury bell, the harebell, and the Venus's looking-glass.

Having long filaments; resembling a hair; slender. See Capillary.

Having corollas of five petals with long claws inclosed in a tubular, calyx, as the pink.

A division of Protozoa, of which Magosphæra is the type. They exist both in a myxopod state, with branched pseudopodia, and in the form of ciliated bodies united in free, spherical colonies.

The science of exchanges, a branch of political economy.

The texan guan (Ortalis vetula). [written also chiacalaca.]

Possessed of the properties of chyle; consisting of chyle.

A small village containing a church. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott Sitting at the clachon alehouse. R. L. Stevenson.

king an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches. Thackeray.