BPage 246
- English Word Blackmail Definition Payment of money exacted by means of intimidation; also, extortion of money from a person by threats of public accusation, exposure, or censure.
- English Word Blackmail Definition Black rent, or rent paid in corn, flesh, or the lowest coin, a opposed to "white rent", which paid in silver.
- English Word Blackmail Definition To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud.
- English Word Blackmailed Definition of Blackmail
- English Word Blackmailer Definition One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
- English Word Blackmailing Definition of Blackmail
- English Word Blackmailing Definition The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
- English Word Blackmoor Definition See Blackamoor.
- English Word Blackness Definition The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
- English Word Blackpoll Definition A warbler of the United States (Dendroica striata).
- English Word Blackroot Definition See Colicroot.
- English Word Blacks Definition The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
- English Word Blacks Definition Soot flying in the air.
- English Word Blacks Definition Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
- English Word Blacksalter Definition One who makes crude potash, or black salts.
- English Word Blacksmith Definition A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.
- English Word Blacksmith Definition A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color.
- English Word Blacksnake Definition A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long.
- English Word Blackstrap Definition A mixture of spirituous liquor (usually rum) and molasses.
- English Word Blackstrap Definition Bad port wine; any common wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.