words

crowberry
n. - The fruit of a small evergreen heath-like shrub (Empetrum nigrum), found on heaths in northern Europe and America; the berry is black and of insipid taste.

fuliginous
adj. - Pertaining to, consisting of, containing, or resembling soot; sooty.

caliginous
adj. - Misty, dim, murky; obscure, dark.

atrament
n. - Blacking, ink; any similar black substance, as the ‘ink’ of the cuttle-fish.

piceous
adj. - Of, pertaining to, or resembling pitch: a. Inflammable, combustible; b. Pitch-black; brownish or reddish black.

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