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A small European song bird (Sylvia atricapilla), with a black crown; the mock nightingale.

A clergyman; -- familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); - - so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope

One who blackens.

A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

See Bluefin.

The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. -- n.

had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army. [Obs.] A lousy slave, that . . . rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage, 'mongst spits and dripping pans. Webster (1612).

The conduct or language of a blackguard; rufflanism.

In the manner of or resembling a blackguard; abusive; scurrilous; ruffianly.

The scaup duck.

A heart-shaped cherry with a very dark-colored skin.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

Somewhat black.

To coat or to polish with black lead.

A notorious gambler. [Colloq.]

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…

In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously. "Deeds so blackly grim and horrid." Feltham.