Index of English words, starting with "bl"

(1) - Blacken (v. i.) To grow black or dark.
(2) - Blacken (v. t.) To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.
(3) - Blacken (v. t.) To make dark; to darken; to cloud.
(4) - Blacken (v. t.) To make or render black.

(1) - Blackguard (a.) Scurrilous; abusive; low; worthless; vicious; as, blackguard language.
(2) - Blackguard (v. t.) To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.
(3) - Blackguard (n.) A vagrant; a bootblack; a gamin.
(4) - Blackguard (n.) A person of stained or low character, esp. one who uses scurrilous language, or treats others with foul abuse; a scoundrel; a rough.
(5) - Blackguard (n.) The criminals and vagrants or vagabonds of a town or community, collectively.
(6) - Blackguard (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the "black guard"; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army.