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Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver. To levy blackmail, to extort money by threats, as of injury to one's reputation.

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.

See Blackamoor.

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness. They're darker now than blackness. Donne.

A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).

See Colicroot.

Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. Howell.

A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd.

The black-tailed deer (Cervus or Cariacus Columbianus) of California and Oregon; also, the mule deer of the Rocky Mountains. See Mule deer.

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

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.

As black as coal; jet black; very black. Dryden.