Blackbird

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blackbird \Black"bird\, n.
     1. Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian. [Cant,
        pejorative]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
  
     2. A native of any of the islands near Queensland; -- called


        also {Kanaka}. [Australia, pejorative]
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blackbird \Black"bird\ (bl[a^]k"b[~e]rd), v. i.
     to engage in the slave trade. [Colloq.]
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Blackbird \Black"bird\ (bl[a^]k"b[~e]rd), n. (Zool.)
     In England, a species of thrush ({Turdus merula}), a singing
     bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given
     to several birds, as the {Quiscalus versicolor}, or crow
     blackbird; the {Agel[ae]us ph[oe]niceus}, or red-winged
     blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, etc. See
     {Redwing}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  blackbird
       n 1: any bird of the family Icteridae whose male is black or
            predominantly black [syn: {New World blackbird}]
       2: common black European thrush [syn: {merl}, {merle}, {ouzel},
           {ousel}, {European blackbird}, {Turdus merula}]