Helen Fenton

Blackcoat: Definition and part of speech

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Blackcoat

  1. n. A clergyman; — familiarly so called, as a soldier is sometimes called a redcoat or a bluecoat.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blackcock: Definition and part of speech

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Blackcock

  1. n. The male of the European black grouse (Tetrao tetrix, Linn.); — so called by sportsmen. The female is called gray hen. See Heath grouse.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blacken: Definition and part of speech

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Blacken

  1. v. i. To grow black or dark.
  2. v. t. To make or render black.
  3. v. t. To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
  4. v. t. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Blackfeet: Definition and part of speech

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Blackfeet

  1. n. pl. A tribe of North American Indians formerly inhabiting the country from the upper Missouri River to the Saskatchewan, but now much reduced in numbers.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.