| bl | black; blood, bleeding; blue |
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| BLB | Baker-Lima-Baker [mask]; Bessey-Lowry-Brock [method or unit]; black light bulb; Boothby-Lovelace-Bul... |
| blk | black |
| BM | Bachelor of Medicine; barium meal; basal medium; basal metabolism; basement membrane; basilar membra... |
| B/M | black male |
| black water | azoturia of horses |
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| black widow spider | A venomous new world spider with an hourglass-shaped red mark on the abdomen. (12 Dec 1998) |
| black widow spider venom | Potent neurotoxin that induces catastrophic release of acetylcholine from presynaptic terminals of cholinergic chemical synapses. (18 Nov 1997) |
| Black's classification | A classification of cavities of the teeth based upon the tooth surface(s) involved. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Black's formula | A translation of Pignet's formula into British measurements: F = (W + C) -H; F is the empirical factor, W is the weight in pounds, C the chest girth in inches at full inspiration, and H the height in inches; a man is classed as very strong when F is over 120, strong between 110 and 120, good 100 to 110, fair 90 to 100, weak 80 to 90, very weak under 80. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Black, Douglas | <person> Scottish physician, *1909. See: Black's formula. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Black, Greene | <person> U.S. Dentist, 1836-1915. See: Black's classification. (05 Mar 2000) |
| black-dot ringworm | Tinea capitis due most commonly to Trichophyton tonsurans or T. Violaceum. (05 Mar 2000) |
| black-hearted | Having a wicked, malignant disposition; morally bad. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| black-jack | 1. <chemical> A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; called also false galena. See Blende. 2. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to colour wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc. 3. A large leather vessel for beer, etc. 4. <botany> The Quercus nigra, or barren oak. 5. The ensign of a pirate. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| black-tongue disease | A disease of dogs similar to human pellagra and due to niacin deficiency. (05 Mar 2000) |
| blackband | <chemical> An earthy carbonate of iron containing considerable carbonaceous matter; valuable as an iron ore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blackberry | The fruit of several species of bramble (Rubus); also, the plant itself. Rubus fruticosus is the blackberry of England; R. Villosus and R. Canadensis are the high blackberry and low blackberry of the United States. There are also other kinds. Origin: OE. Blakberye, AS. Blaecerie; blaec black + berie berry. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blackbird | <zoology> In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolour, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See Redwing. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blackboard | A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| blackberry |
large sweet black or very dark purple edible aggregate fruit of any of various bushes of the genus Rubus pick or gather blackberries; "The children went blackberrying" bramble with sweet edible black or dark purple berries that usually do not separate from the receptacle
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| blackleg |
scab: someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike fink: take the place of work of someone on strike
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| blacksnake |
black rat snake: large harmless shiny black North American snake blackish racer of the eastern United States that grows to six feet
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| black |
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" total darkness: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) bootleg: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice" (of coffee) without cream or sugar a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars" (board games) the darker pieces black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" blacken: make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
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| black cohosh |
North American bugbane found from Maine and Ontario to Wisconsin and south to Georgia
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| black | an African who is Black |
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| black | a widely distributed North American garden spider |
| black | an English recruit serving in the Royal Irish Constabulary to combat Sinn Fein in 1921 |
| black | a black-and-white photograph or slide |
| black | the result of the printing process |
| black | (photography) "black-and-white film" |
| black | black hornless breed from Scotland |
| black | small hybrid apricot of Asia and Asia Minor having purplish twigs and white flowers following by inferior purple fruit |
| black | ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers |
| black | the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world |
| black | vigorous spreading North American tree having dark brown heavy wood |
| black | small bamboo having thin green culms turning shining black |