Word Meanings - PITCH-BLACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Black as pitch or tar.

Related words: (words related to PITCH-BLACK)

• PITCHSTONE
  An igneous rock of semiglassy nature, having a luster like pitch.
• PITCHERFUL
  The quantity a pitcher will hold.
• 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
• PITCHINESS
  Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.
• PITCHFORK
  A fork, or farming utensil, used in pitching hay, sheaves of grain, or the like.
• 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.
• 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.
• BLACK LEAD
  Plumbago; graphite.It leaves a blackish mark somewhat like lead. See Graphite.
• PITCHWORK
  The work of a coal miner who is paid by a share of his product.
• 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.
• PITCHER
  1. One who pitches anything, as hay, quoits, a ball, etc.; specifically , the player who delivers the ball to the batsman. 2. A sort of crowbar for digging. Mortimer.
• 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.
• PITCH
  See AMERICA (more info) 1. A thick, black, lustrous, and sticky substance obtained by boiling down tar. It is used in calking the seams of ships; also in coating rope, canvas, wood, ironwork, etc.,
• BLACK-EYED SUSAN
  The coneflower, or yellow daisy . The bladder ketmie.
• 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.
• AUCTION PITCH
  A game of cards in which the players bid for the privilege of determining or "pitching" the trump suit. R. F. Foster.
• WATER PITCHER
  One of a family of plants having pitcher-shaped leaves. The sidesaddle flower is the type. (more info) 1. A pitcher for water.
• SHOEBLACK
  One who polishes shoes.
• JET-BLACK
  Black as jet; deep black.
• BRUNSWICK BLACK
  See BLACK