Pitch-black: alternatives and connections

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fractu…

Coal-black; very black.

Lydian stone, or black jasper, a variety of siliceous or flinty slate, of a grayish or bluish black color. It is employed to test the…

The two American fresh-water species of black bass (genus Micropterus). See Black bass.

A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bi…

Mineral pitch; a black, tarry substance, burning with a bright flame; Jew's pitch. It occurs as an abundant natural product in many pl…

the electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of…

To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.

A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with…

the electromagnetic radiation that would be radiated from an ideal black body; the distribution of energy in the radiated spectrum of…

The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

To put in a black list as deserving of suspicion, censure, or punishment; esp. to put in a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or…

The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.

A mineral, called also sphalerite, and by miners mock lead, false galena, and black-jack. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains so…

A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constant…

A dark color inclining to red or yellow, resulting from the mixture of red and black, or of red, black, and yellow; a tawny, dusky hue.