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of or pertaining to negroes; black. Negro bug (Zoöl.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produced a very disagreeable flavor. -- negro corn, the Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies. see Durra. McElrath. -- Negro fly (Zoöl.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosæ) which, in…

An inferior commercial variety of India rubber made up into round masses.

Characteristic of the negro.

See Negroid.

A person who favors the abolition of any institution, especially negro slavery.

To place under the domination of Africans or negroes. [Amer.] Bartlett.

A person, whether negro, Indian, or white, in whom by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of…

A contract or convention between Spain and other powers for furnishing negro slaves for the Spanish dominions in America, esp. the contract made with Great Britain in 1713.

familiar name for an aunt. In the southern United States a familiar term applied to aged negro women.

A member of one of the great family of Negroid tribes occupying equatorial and southern Africa. These tribes include, as important divisions, the Kafirs, Damaras, Bechuanas, and many tribes whose names begin with Aba-, Ama-, Ba-, Ma-, Wa-, variants of the Bantu plural personal prefix Aba-, as in Ba-ntu, or Aba-ntu, its…

A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

A negro or negress. Shak.

The kidnaping of negroes or Polynesians to be sold as slaves.

A male Indian or negro. [Colloq. U.S.]

A white man; -- a term used by negroes of the African coast, West Indies, etc.

and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

restrain or coerce by intimidation or violence; -- used originally of the intimidation of negro voters, in Louisiana. [Slang, U.S.]

tetanus, neuralgia, and rheumatic diseases; -- called also ordeal bean, being used by the negroes in trials for witchcraft.

A gang of negro slaves being driven to market.

Of some other color than white; specifically applied to negroes or persons having negro blood; as, a colored man; the colored people.