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Word Meanings - BLACKMAILER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.

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  • BLACK LETTER
    The old English or Gothic letter, in which the Early English manuscripts were written, and the first English books were printed. It was conspicuous for its blackness. See Type.
  • BLACKEN
    Etym: 1. To make or render black. While the long funerals blacken all the way. Pope 2. To make dark; to darken; to cloud. "Blackened the whole heavens." South. 3. To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens
  • BLACKWATER STATE
    Nebraska; -- a nickname alluding to the dark color of the water of its rivers, due to the presence of a black vegetable mold in the soil.
  • MAIL
    A spot.
  • BLACK FLAGS
    An organization composed originally of Chinese rebels that had been driven into Tonkin by the suppression of the Taiping rebellion, but later increased by bands of pirates and adventurers. It took a prominent part in fighting the French during their
  • BLACK-JACK
    A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; - - called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
  • MONEYER
    1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
  • BLACK LEAD
    Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
  • BLACK HOLE
    A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which
  • BLACK FRIDAY
    Any Friday on which a public disaster has occurred, as: In England, December 6, 1745, when the news of the landing of the Pretender reached London, or May 11, 1866, when a financial panic commenced. In the United States, September 24, 1869, and
  • BLACK BASS
    1. An edible, fresh-water fish of the United States, of the genus Micropterus. the small-mouthed kind is M. dolomiei; the largemouthed is M. salmoides. 2. The sea bass. See Blackfish, 3.
  • BLACK-FACED
    Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.
  • MONEYAGE
    1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
  • EXTORTIONER
    , One who practices extortion.
  • BLACKFOOT
    Of or pertaining to the Blackfeet; as, a Blackfoot Indian. -- n.
  • BLACKLEG
    1. A notorious gambler. 2. A disease among calves and sheep, characterized by a settling of gelatinous matter in the legs, and sometimes in the neck.
  • BLACK-EYED SUSAN
    The coneflower, or yellow daisy . The bladder ketmie.
  • MONEY
    fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
  • EXTORTIONARY
    Extortionate.
  • EXTORTER
    One who practices extortion.
  • FRANKFORT BLACK
    . A black pigment used in copperplate printing, prepared by burning vine twigs, the lees of wine, etc. McElrath.
  • MAGNASE BLACK
    A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.
  • SHOEBLACK
    One who polishes shoes.
  • JET-BLACK
    Black as jet; deep black.
  • SEA-MAIL
    A gull; the mew.
  • BRUNSWICK BLACK
    See BLACK
  • LIMAILLE
    Filings of metal. "An ounce . . . of silver lymaille." Chaucer.

 

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