blackjack (blakjak)

1. A capacious drinking-cup or can formerly made of waxed leather, but now of thin metal, the outside being japanned black, except the edge, which is left bright, in imitation of the ancient leathern black-jacks with silver rims. There's a Dead-sea of drink in the cellar, in which goodly ve els lie wrecked; and in the middle of this deluge appear the tops of flagons and black - jacks , like churches drowned in the Beau , and Fl . , Scornful Lady, ii. 2. marshes. Leathern Black-jacks. 2. The ensign of a pirate.-3. A Cornish miners' term for the common ferruginous zinc sulphid, of which the mineralogical name is sphalerite, and the common name blende. Also called false galena.-4. Caramel or burnt sugar used for coloring spirits, vinegar, coffee, etc.-5. A trade-name for adulterated butter. - 6. A local English name of the coalfish, Poll a chi us virens. -7. A common name in the United States for a species of oak, Quercus nigra, and also, in the Gulf States, for Q. Catesbæi, small trees of little value except for fuel.-8. The larva of a sawfly, Athalia cent i folia or A. spinarum, one of the Tenth red i nid a, destructive to turnips. Also called nigger. J. O. West wood. [Local British.] -9. A kind of hand-weapon consisting of a short elastic shaft having at one end a heavy metal head cased in netting, leather, etc. black-knot (blak'not), n. 1. A fast knot: opposed to running - knot.-2. A species of pyrenomycetous fungus, Sphæria morbosa, which attacks plum-trees and some varieties of cherry, forming large, black, knot-like ma es upon the branches.