Black Draught

( Med.) The common aperient mixture kept in the shops, and called by this name, is a mere infusion of senna with ginger, in which Epsom salts are di olved. Each practitioner has a formula of to darken. Black Dye, n. (Chem.) In dyeing blacks or browns, the stuffs are steeped first in a bath containing some form of tannin, such as infusion of galls, sumach, or catechu, and afterwards in a solution of a salt of iron; digo, of sulphate of copper, . Black Earth, n. Mould; earth of a black color.. Woodward. Black Earth, in Wisconsin, a post-village and town- ship of Dane co., 19 m. W. by N. of Madison. "While the long fun'rals blacken all the way."- Pope . -To soil; to sully; to defame. "The morals blacken'd , when the writings 'scape, The libell'd person and the pictur'd shape." - Pope . -v. n. To grow black or dark. IMG:content-0639.png:[blocks in formation] v. a. To revile in scurrilous language. Black'-gum, n. ( Bot . ) See NYSSA. Black'-haired, a . Having black hair. Black Hall, in Georgia , a dist. of De Kalb co. Black Hammer, in Minnesota , a township of Houston co. Black Hawk, in Iowa, a co. in the N.E. central part Roman letters were employed in the writings of western Europe from the 5th to about the close of the 12th cen tury, when the Gothic characters came to be adopted. When printing was first introduced, the object was to imitate writing; and the first printed books were disposed of as manuscripts, the imitation being so perfect that it required great discrimination to distinguish the printed from the written. Books, printed before the year 1500, are generally in the black-letter characters, when, in most European countries, they came to be superseded by the Roman. The old Gothic is still in general use in Germany, but now many books are printed there also in Roman characters. Books in the old black-letter are highly prized by antiquaries and bibliomaniacs, as being the earliest. Waterloo. IMG:content-0640.png:[blocks in formation] Black Hawk, in Wisconsin , a post-office of Sauk co. Black Hawk Creek, in Iowa , flows into the Red Cedar River in Black Hawk co. Black Hawk Mills, in Indiana , a village of Posey co.