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Blacklegs
- noun - Also called black quarter, symptomatic anthrax. Veterinary Pathology. an infectious, often fatal disease of cattle and sheep, caused by the soil bacterium Clostridium chauvoei and characterized by painful, gaseous swellings in the muscles
- someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike
- take the place of work of someone on strike
Blacklist
- noun - a list of people who are out of favor
- put on a blacklist so as to banish or cause to be boycotted; "many books were blacklisted by the Nazis"
Blackmail
- noun - exert pressure on someone through threats
- extortion of money by threats to divulge discrediting information
- obtain through threats
Blackness
- noun - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
Blackouts
- noun - a momentary loss of consciousness
- a suspension of radio or tv broadcasting
- darkness resulting from the extinction of lights (as in a city invisible to enemy aircraft)
- partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"
- the failure of electric power for a general region
Blackpoll
- noun - North American warbler having a black-and-white head
Blackpool
- noun - a resort town in Lancashire in northwestern England on the Irish Sea; famous for its tower
Blackseed
- noun - grass native to West Indies but common in southern United States having tufted wiry stems often infested with a dark fungus