blackgame (blakgam)

See blackcock and grouse. 1. A dark-colored black-gra (blak'grås), n. gra (blak gras), rush ( Juncus Gerardi ) of salt-marshes. [U. S.] -2. A species of foxtail gra , Alopecurus agrestis. [Eng.] blackguard (blag'ärd), n. and a. [ See def. I. n. 14. In collective senses A lousy slave, that within this twenty years rode with the black guard in the duke's carriage 'mongst spits and dripping-pans! Webster, White Devil, i. 2. (b) A guard of attendants, black in color of the skin or dre , or in character. Pelagius, Celestius, and other like heretics of the devils black guard. Fulke , Defence (1583), x. 386. (N. E. D. ) (c) The idle criminal cla ; vagabonds generally. le : said of persons and things. Marking certain things as low and blackguard, and certain others as lawful and right. T. Hughes, 3. Scurrilous; abusive; befitting a blackguard: as, blackguard language. blackguard (blag'ärd), v. [ I have been called names and blackguarded quite sufficiently for one sitting. Thackeray , New comes, xxix. II.t in trans. To be, act, or talk like a blackguard; behave riotously. And there a batch o' wabster lads, Blackguarding frae Kilmarnock, For fun this day. Burns , Holy Fair. [ black- blackguardism (blag'ärd-izm), n. guard + -ism.] The conduct or language of a blackguard; ruffianism. This ignominious di olutene , or rather, if we may venture to designate it by the only proper word, black guardism , of feeling and manners, could not but spread from public to private life. Macaulay, Hallam's Const. Hist.