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A West Indian tree (Picræna excelsa) from the wood of which the bitter drug Jamaica quassia is obtained.

very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. Shak.

ly English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.

he days in the calendar not marked with red letters as saints' days. Hence: Unlucky; inauspicious.

To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, -- as tradesmen and employers do for mutual protection; as, to blacklist a workman who has been discharged. See Black list, under Black, a. If you blacklist us, we will b…

To make public far and wide; to make known; to render conspicuous. On charitable lists he blazed his name. Pollok. To blaze those virtues which the good would hide. Pope.

The art or act of describing or depicting heraldic bearings in the proper language or manner. Peacham.

the flower of a plant; an expanded bud; flowers, collectively. The rich blooms of the tropics. Prescott.

Characterized by blots or heavy touches; coarsely depicted; wanting in delineation. Ruskin.

the tempest blew the ship ashore. Off at sea northeast winds blow Sabean odors from the spicy shore. Milton.

myrtaceous tree (Eucalyptus globulus), of the loftiest proportions, now cultivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus. -- Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulph…

A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix.

A wading bird (Cancroma cochlearia) of the tropical parts of South America. Its bill is somewhat like a boat with the keel uppermost.

The tropic bird. Boatswain's mate, an assistant of the boatswain. Totten.

A sharp tool, like an awl, used for picking

Standing prominently out to view; markedly conspicuous; striking the eye; in high relief. Shadows in painting . . . make the figure bolder. Dryden.

Having a conspicuous or heavy face.

work of anything. A bone of contention, a subject of contention or dispute. -- A bone to pick, something to investigate, or to busy one's self about; a dispute to be settled (with some one). -- Bone ash, the residue from calcined bones; -- used for making cupels, and for cleaning jewelry. -- Bone black (Chem.), the…

A large tropical fish (Orcynus pelamys) allied to the tunny. It is about three feet long, blue above, with four brown stripes on the sides. It is sometimes found on the American coast.

A pole with a conspicuous top, set up to mark the channel in a river or harbor. [Obs.]