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Blackwash: Definition and part of speech

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Blackwash

  1. n. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny.
  2. n. A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water.

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.

Blackwood: Definition and part of speech

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Blackwood

  1. n. A name given to several dark-colored timbers. The East Indian black wood is from the tree Dalbergia latifolia.

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.

Blackwork: Definition and part of speech

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Blackwork

  1. n. Work wrought by blacksmiths; — so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.

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.

Bladder: Definition and part of speech

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Bladder

  1. n. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
  2. n. A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder; — applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.
  3. n. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
  4. n. A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

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.

Bladderwort: Definition and part of speech

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Bladderwort

  1. n. A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

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.

Blade: Definition and part of speech

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Blade

  1. v. i. To put forth or have a blade.
  2. n. Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.
  3. n. The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.
  4. n. The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.
  5. n. The scapula or shoulder blade.
  6. n. The principal rafters of a roof.
  7. n. The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.
  8. n. A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; — a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.
  9. v. t. To furnish with a blade.
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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.