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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.

king an object, or by collision of parts; to rattle; to click. We heard Mr.Hodson's whip clacking on the ahoulders of the poor little wretches. Thackeray.

One who clacks; that which clacks; especially, the clapper of a mill.

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

To flutter, as a bird. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

A barrel-shaped bottle; a flagon.

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

See Forslack.

To neglect by idleness; to delay or to waste by sloth. [Obs.] Spenser.

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

Black as jet; deep black.