BLACKMAIL
Black"mail`, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackmailed; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blackmailing.]
Defn: To extort money from by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation, distress of mind, etc.; as, to blackmail a merchant by threatening to expose an alleged fraud. [U. S.]
BLACKMAILER
Black"mail`er, n.
Defn: One who extorts, or endeavors to extort, money, by black mailing.
BLACKMAILING
Black"mail`ing, n.
Defn: The act or practice of extorting money by exciting fears of injury other than bodily harm, as injury to reputation.
BLACK MONDAY
Black" Mon`day.
1. Easter Monday, so called from the severity of that day in 1360, which was so unusual that many of Edward III.'s soldiers, then before Paris, died from the cold. Stow. Then it was not for nothing that may nose fell a bleeding on Black Monday last. Shak.
2. The first Monday after the holidays; — so called by English schoolboys. Halliwell.
BLACK MONK
Black" monk`.