Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A capacious drinking-cup or can formerly made of waxed leather, but now of thin metal, the outside being japanned black, except the edge, which is left bright, in imitation of the ancient leathern black-jacks with silver rims.
- n. The ensign of a pirate.
- n. A Cornish miners' term for the common ferruginous zinc sulphid, of which the mineralogical name is sphalerite, and the common name blende. Also called false galena.
- n. Caramel or burnt sugar used for coloring spirits, vinegar, coffee, etc.
- n. A trade-name for adulterated butter.
- n. A local English name of the coalfish, Pollachius virens.
- n. A common name in the United States for a species of oak, Quercus nigra, and also, in the Gulf States, for Q. Catesbæi, small trees of little value except for fuel.
- n. The larva of a sawfly, Athalia centifolia or A. spinarum, one of the Tenthredinidæ, destructive to turnips. Also called nigger.
- n. A kind of hand-weapon consisting of a short elastic shaft having at one end a heavy metal head cased in netting, leather, etc.
- n. Candy made of dark molasses.
Wiktionary
- n. obsolete, mineralogy, UK Sphalerite; zincblende.
- n. obsolete Caramel or burnt sugar, used to colour wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
- n. obsolete A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
- n. obsolete The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Min.) A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also
false galena . See blende. - n. Caramel or burnt sugar, used to color wines, spirits, ground coffee, etc.
- n. obsolete A large leather vessel for beer, etc.
- n. (Bot.) The Quercus nigra, or barren oak.
- n. The ensign of a pirate.
Examples
“Even John McCain, whom the New York Times has documented is an inveterate casino gambler, can't do that well at the black-jack table.”
“How does a moderate Democrat survive in Oklahoma, where there is a right-wing Republican around every rock and black-jack tree in the state?”
“The first hand of black-jack played by a 22-year-old kid from Nebraska in Vegas may feel 175% game like... but to the withered, 71-year-old dealer who's been slinging cards for 18 hours straight... is it a game?”
“Trapbois how he did, by the familiar title of old Peter Pillory, and then, seizing upon the black-jack, emptied it off at a draught, to the health of the last and youngest freeman of Alsatia, the noble and loving master”
“He walks by a black-jack table and the gambler is busted.”
“From a back pocket he withdrew an article not normally carried by racing drivers -- a woven leather black-jack with a wrist thong.”
“The black-jack made contact just below and behind my left ear with what must have been considerable force or accuracy or both for the agony and the oblivion were separated by only a hairsbreadth in time.”
“I heard a slight noise behind me and started to twist but I was far too late, the black-jack must have been chopping down even as I heard the sound.”
“The black-jack made contact just below and behind my left ear with what must have been considerable force or accuracy, or both, for the agony and the oblivion were separated by only a hairsbreadth in time.”
“Take it easy, pal," the larger of his thought-screened captors advised, dandling the black-jack suggestively before his eyes.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘black-jack’.
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Minerals and Mineralogy
List of minerals, elements, group names and geochemistry terms encountered in the science of mineralogy. I've chosen to avoid capital letters in most examples, though a great many mineral names hon...
galkhaite, xanthoconite, pyrostilpnite, polybasite, pyrargyrite, djurleite, digenite, covellite, chalcocite, cerargirite, acanthite, aeschynite and 2608 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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It's a Fish
kelpfish, fatfin, dollarfish, barrelfish, palometa, poppy-fish, ballan-wrasse, sweetlips, bichir, finpike, bergall, cunner and 192 more...
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Jugs
aludel, aljofaina, pig, chytra, gallipot, brown-george, coffee-pot, cezve, ibrik, biggin, drip pot, water-jug and 78 more...
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Cornish Listy
elvan, elvanite, gerrick, head-sword, foge, teasy, black-jack, blens, capel, forcer, Cornish pasty, stargazy pie and 33 more...
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My Cup Runneth Over
Drinking vessels.
cup, teacup, sippy cup, paper cup, beaker, glass, drinking glass, filigree-glass, wineglass, shot glass, tumbler, deepsinker and 50 more...
Tweets
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dailyword Jim's horse on "The Wild Wild West" was named this. Aug 21, 2012