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The mineral black tourmaline or schorl; -- so called by the Cornish miners. Raymond.

A light boat. To board the cockleshell in those plunding waters. W. Black.

A joint defendant. Blackstone.

One to whom a fine of land was ackowledged. Blackstone.

One who ackowledged the right of the plaintiff or cognizee in a fine; the defendant. Blackstone.

Lacking the sensation of warmth; suffering from the absence of heat; chilly; shivering; as, to be cold.

A kind of small black perch.

A small European titmouse (Parus ater), so named from its black color; -- called also coalmouse and colemouse.

te flowers in a long spike (Aletris farinosa and A. aurea). Called sometimes star grass, blackroot, blazing star, and unicorn root.

The black grime or soot of coal. [Obs.] Burton.

Any hue distinguished from white or black.

A yellowish beetle (Doryphora decemlineata), with ten longitudinal, black, dorsal stripes. It has migrated eastwards from its original habitat in Colorado, and is very destructive to the potato plant; -- called also potato beetle and potato bug. See Potato beetle.

Mercury telluride, an iron-black metallic mineral, found in Colorado.

Of some other color than black or white.

A mineral of a black color, submetallic luster, and high specific specific gravity. It is a niobate (or columbate) of iron and manganese, containing tantalate of iron; -- first found in New England.

as a fashion. -- To come up the capstan (Naut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. -- To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. Totten. -- To come up to, to rise to; to equal. -- To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit. -- To come upon. (a) To befall…

pressure allows the escape of a yellow wormlike mass of retained oily secretion, with a black head (dirt).

be claimed by prescriptive right, as by a parson of a church or other corporation sole. Blackstone. -- Common of estovers, the right of taking wood from another's estate. -- Common of pasture, the right of feeding beasts on the land of another. Burill. -- Common of piscary, the right of fishing in waters belonging…

commons. Commonable beasts are either beasts of the plow, or such as manure the ground. Blackstone.

ility; the commons. The commonalty, like the nobility, are divided into several degrees. Blackstone. The ancient fare of our kings differed from that of the commonalty in plenteousness only. Landon.