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Very black. [Obs.] As any raven's feathers it shone forblack. Chaucer.

. A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.

Black as jet; deep black.

oportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.

A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.

Black as pitch or tar.

One who polishes shoes.

The European water ousel, or dipper.

of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant…

Ivory black or animal charcoal. Weale.

right, into a freehold after the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone. Defense in abatement, Plea in abatement, (Law), plea to the effect that from some formal defect (e.g. misnomer, want of jurisdiction) the proceedings should be abated.

t, enters into a freehold on the death of the last possessor, before the heir or devisee. Blackstone.

Behavior. [Obs.] Blackstone.

as wholly abstracted by other objects. The young stranger had been abstracted and silent. Blackw. Mag.

During coverture, access of the husband shall be presumed, unless the contrary be shown. Blackstone.

by which satisfaction for an injury is stipulated, and which, when executed, bars a suit. Blackstone. With one accord, with unanimity. They rushed with one accord into the theater. Acts xix. 29.

ss, inflammable liquid from the slow oxidation of alcohol under the influence of platinum black.

One of the small grains or drupelets which make up some kinds of fruit, as the blackberry, raspberry, etc.

ath of his ancestor, acquires his estate, by right of representation, as his heir at law. Blackstone.

A genus of ferns, the leaves of which shed water; maidenhair. Also, the black maidenhair, a species of spleenwort.