black liquor (blaklik"or)

A crude acetate of iron prepared from scrap-iron and crude acetic acid, very generally used in dyeing as a mordant instead of green copperas. black-list (blak'list), n. 1. A list of defaulters: specifically applied to printed lists of insolvents and bankrupts, published officially. Private lists, however, of a more searching character, are furnished by certain societies and private individuals to subscribers, with the view of affording protection against bad debts, frauds, etc. 2. Any list of persons who are for any reason deemed objectionable by the makers or users of the list, as for political or social misconduct, for joining in or a isting a strike, etc. 3. Naut., a list kept on board a man-of-war of delinquents to whom extra duty is a igned as a punishment. blacklist (blak'list), v. t. [ blackly (blak'li), adv. With a black or dark appearance; darkly; atrociously. Lastly stood Warre, in glittering arms yclad, With visage grim, sterne looks, and blackely hewed. Sackville , Ind. to Mir. for Mags. Deeds so blackly grim and horrid. Feltham , Resolves, ii. 31. black-mackt, n. [Early mod. E.; black + mack (uncertain).] A blackbird. blackmail (blak'mal), n. [Lit. black rent (cf. black rent , under black ); black + mail , rent: see mail3 .] 1. A tribute of money, corn, cattle, or the like, anciently paid, in the north of England and in Scotland, to men who were allied with robbers, to secure protection from pillage. Blackmail was levied in the districts bordering the Highlands of Scotland till the middle of the eighteenth century. Hence-2. Extortion in any mode by means of intimidation, as the extortion of money by threats of accusation or exposure, or of unfavorable criticism in the pre . It usually implies payment is involuntary, and the ground for de manding it unlawful or pretended and fraudulent. in opposition to rent paid in silver. 3t. Rent paid in produce, or in baser money, blackmail (blak'māl), v. t. [ etc. See the noun. Same as black a moor. Beau. and Fl. black-mo (blak'môs), n. The Spanish mo , Tillandsia usneoides, of the southern United States: so called from the black fiber that remains after the outer covering of the stem is removed. It is used as a substitute for horsehair in mattre es, etc. black mouth (blak'mouth), n. A foul-mouthed person; a slanderer. [Rare.] black mouthed (blak'moutht), a. Slanderous; calumnious; foul-mouthed. Whatever else the most black - mouth'd atheists charged it with. Killing beck , Sermons, p. 118.