Word Meanings - BOOTBLACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who blacks boots.

BLACKS
1. 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. 2. Soot flying in the air. 3. Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
BLACKSTRAP
1. A mixture of spirituous liquor and molasses. No blackstrap to-night; switchel, or ginger pop. Judd. 2. Bad port wine; any commo wine of the Mediterranean; -- so called by sailors.
BOOTS
A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes.
BLACKSALTER
One who,makes crude potash, or black salts.
BLACKSMITH
A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, or Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color. (more info) 1. A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc. The blacksmith may forge what he pleases. Howell.
TOP-BOOTS
High boots, having generally a band of some kind of light- colored leather around the upper part of the leg; riding boots.
BLACK SNAKE; BLACKSNAKE
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. Note: The name is also applied to various other
SLYBOOTS
A humerous appellation for a sly, cunning, or waggish person. Slyboots was cursedly cunning to hide 'em. Goldsmith.