Definition of Blackburn

1. Noun. Black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat.

Exact synonyms: Blackburnian Warbler, Dendroica Fusca
Generic synonyms: New World Warbler, Wood Warbler
Group relationships: Dendroica, Genus Dendroica

Definition of Blackburn

1. Proper noun. A town in Lancashire, England ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackburn

Black Tai
Black Thursday
Black Tuesday
Black and Decker
Black and Deckers
Black and Tan
Black and Tans
Black man
Black person
Black race
Black woman
Blackacre
Blackadder
Blackamoor
Blackbeard
Blackburn
Blackfeet
Blackfoot
Blackfriar
Blackpool
Blackpudlian
Blackpudlians
Blacks
Blacksburg
Blackshirt
Blackstone
Blackwall hitch
Blackwell
Blackwood

Literary usage of Blackburn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Proceedings by Institution of Municipal Engineers, London, Incorporated Association of Municipal and County Engineers, Association of Municipal and Sanitary Engineers and Surveyors (1886)
"BY JB McCALLUM, BOROUGH AND WATER ENGINEER, blackburn. The town of blackburn was incorporated in 1851. Population in 1801 1811 1821 1831 1841 46536 63126 ..."

2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1886)
"Howard used to say that blackburn was the only man who was capable of delineating to his mind upon paper his ideas of what a prison ought to be. ..."

3. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1906)
"A statue of Gladstone was erected at blackburn in 1899. [From blackburn branch-lines diverge on the left to Preston (p. 404) and on the right to Burnley (p. ..."

4. A Treatise on the Law of Mortgages by John Joseph Powell, Thomas Coventry (1822)
"blackburn, the circumstance of possession was never considered as making any difference ... blackburn, were in favour of the defendant ; uniformly holding, ..."

5. The Assassination of President Lincoln: And the Trial of the Conspirators by David E. Herold, Benn Pitman (1865)
"Mr. Holcombe told me that Dr. blackburn was at the Donegana Hotel in Montreal, and that I had better telegraph to him, stating that I had returned On the ..."

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