Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A name of the fisher, pekan, or Pennant's marten, Mustela pennanti, a large blackish marten peculiar to the northerly parts of North America. Also called black-fox. See cut under fisher.
Wiktionary
- n. A fisher, North American marten that has thick brown fur; Martes pennanti.
- n. A cat with black fur.
- v. To do in some respect better than another.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Zoöl.) the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See Fisher.
- n. the fisher. See under Black.
WordNet 3.0
- n. large dark brown North American arboreal carnivorous mammal
Examples
“What caused Qwilleran to step on the brake was the sight of her entourage: a black cat on her lap, a calico curled at her feet, and a tiger stretched on the top step.”
“Episcopalians, and Swedenborgians as well) regard it as unlucky to meet a black cat and lucky to find a pin?”
“Â Â Â "She is simply jealous because we're all smarter than he is," the white cat informed Morwen with a look at the black cat on Archaniz's shoulder.”
“Â Â Â "Mrow!" said the black cat in a complaining tone.”
“Hayden stood aside as Miss Dimwinkle came limping out of the house, a squirming black cat held at arm’s length.”
“Â Â Â Morwen gave the black cat a speculative look.”
“The black cat streaked out into the front yard, made a hairpin turn, and leapt for the porch, where he clawed his way up Archaniz's skirts to a perch on her shoulder.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘black cat’.
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I Am A Starfish. I Speak With Paint.
List title totally stolen from she. Right, the stock entry for this list should be a two-word phrase where one of the words denotes a colour; even better if the expression has some metaphoric value...
black dog, tangerine dream, orange roughy, blue moon, blackguard, white house, purple rain, grey nurse, green thumb, yellow fever, sacre bleu, palo verde and 159 more...
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Malcolm-Hex
Words where 'black' has a negative connotation.
The awareness of this has been more publically discussed since the 60's, however with the 2008 presidental race, I am curious if any of ...black sheep, blacklist, blackmail, blackball, black hat, black mark, black day, black magic, black market, blackhole, black monday, black comedy and 65 more...
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Black or White
black and white, snow-white, coal-black, blacksmith, whitesmith, blackball, white-box testing, Blackberry, white pages, black book, white paper, blacklist and 107 more...
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Lessons In Marxism
A tribute to Groucho Marx.
alimony, black cat, child of five, woman, something important, convulsed, darken my towels, adverse conditions, television, wonderful evening, forever, never forget and 25 more...
Tweets
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bilby "A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere."
- Groucho Marx. Dec 23, 2007