Blacklist

( Com.) A name popularly given in England, and the U. States, to printed lists privately circulated among subscribers, giving lists of insolvents and bankrupts, protested bills, judgments for debt, and other matters affecting the credit of firms and individuals, and intended for the guidance of merchants, and others, in trade. Black Log Mountain, in Pennsylvania, stretches from the Juniata River S.W., and divides Mifflin co. from Juniata co. Black'ly, adv . Darkly. - Atrociously. Black'-mail, n . [ Black , denoting the illegality of the tribute, or the low coin in which it was paid, and A.S. mal ; Goth. maala; Ger. mahl , tribute; Gael. mal , rent. N. Fr. mael, .] ( Hist .) A tax, in kind or money, that was levied by the borderers of England and Scotland, under the pretence of affording protection from robbers, with whom those demanding the tribute were generally allied. These illegal exactions were carried to such an extent that they became the subject of legislation just before the union in 1707. The practice was, in spite of every effort for its suppre ion, continued in Scotland until the rebellion of 1745. -Money extorted from persons under the threat of exposure of an alleged offence; hush-money. -v. To extort by the methods of blackmail. Black'man, in Michigan , a township of Jackson county. Black'man's Mills, in N. Carolina, a post-office of Sampson co.