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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[

Black

(in allusion to the color of the metal) +

smith

. Cf.

A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc.

The

blacksmith

may forge what he pleases.

Howell.

(Zool.)

A fish of the Pacific coast (

Chromis punctipinnis

, or

Heliastes punctipinnis

), of a blackish color.

Noun.

[black and smith.] A smith who works in iron, and makes iron utensils; more properly, an iron-smith.

Black'-strakes, in a ship, are a range of planks immediately above the wales in a ship's side, covered with tar and lamp-black.