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ays a Dominican friar. The Dominicans are called also preaching friars, friars preachers, black friars (from their black cloak), brothers of St. Mary, and in France, Jacobins.

Vested or vesting by donation; as, a donative advowson. Blackstone.

A brownish black native hydrocarbon occurring in elastic or jellylike masses.

owment; establishment of funds for support, as of a hospital or eleemosynary corporation. Blackstone.

r urged for solution; point unsettled; objection. To every doubt your answer is the same. Blackmore. No doubt, undoubtedly; without doubt. -- Out of doubt, beyond doubt. [Obs.] Spenser.

Capable of being endowed; entitled to dower. Blackstone.

w enjoys during her life, or to which a woman is entitled after the death of her husband. Blackstone.

A team of oxen or horses. Blackstone.

attentive to dress. A dressy flaunting maidservant. T. Hook. A neat, dressy gentleman in black. W. Irving.

A passerine bird of the family Dicruridæ. They are usually black with a deeply forked tail. They are natives of Asia, Africa, and Australia; -- called also drongo shrikes.

Act of dropping; sudden fall or descent. Ague drop, Black drop. See under Ague, Black. -- Drop by drop, in small successive quantities; in repeated portions. "Made to taste drop by drop more than the bitterness of death." Burke. -- Drop curtain. See Drop, n.,

A small drupe, as one of the pulpy grains of the blackberry.

prevailed until the early part of the 18th, and occasionally as late as the 19th century. Blackstone. Chambers.

A mineral of a blackish green color, commonly massive or in nodules. It is a hydrous phosphate of iron.

Of a dark color; of a color partaking of a brown and black; of a dull brown color; swarthy. Summer's dun cloud comes thundering up. Pierpont. Chill and dun Falls on the moor the brief November day. Keble. Dun crow (Zoöl.), the hooded crow; -- so called from its color; -- also called hoody, and hoddy. -- Dun diver (Zoö…

screen set at different angles, and usually printed in two shades of the same color or in black and one tint.

The use of two or more distinct allegations or answers, where one is sufficient. Blackstone.

Tending to darkness or blackness; moderately dark or black; dusky. A pathless desert, dusk with horrid shades. Milton.

Tending to blackness in color; partially black; dark-colored; not bright; as, a dusky brown. Bacon. When Jove in dusky clouds involves the sky. Dryden. The figure of that first ancestor invested by family tradition with a dim and dusky grandeur. Hawthorne.

The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.