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ad 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.

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.