Definitions
1.noun(see usage notes) A black person; a person of black African descent.
2.noun(see usage notes) A member of another typically dark-skinned people (now especially in combinations, e.g. prairie nigger, sand nigger).
3.nounAn informal term of address.
4.nounA friend.
5.nounA fish, the luderick (Girella tricuspidata).
6.nounA dark brown butterfly, Orsotriaena medus.
7.nounAn impurity in the covering of an electrical conductor which serves to make a partial short circuit, and thus becomes sufficiently heated to burn and destroy the insulation.
8.nounA kind of sea cucumber, Holothuria forskali, the cotton spinner.
9.nounThe larva of the turnip sawfly, an agricultural pest.
10.nounA strong iron-bound timber with sharp teeth or spikes protruding from its front face, forming part of the machinery of a sawmill, and used in canting logs, etc.
11.nounA steam-capstan on some Mississippi river boats, used to haul the boat over bars and snags by a rope fastened to a tree on the bank.
12.nounA black screen used in conjunction with the camera to block light or produce special lighting effects.
13.verbTo clear land by laying light pieces of round timber across the trunks of the trees and setting fire to them at the point of contact, by which means the trees are slowly burned through.
14.verbTo exhaust (soil) by cropping it year by year without manure.
15.verbTo behave as a stereotypical black person.
16.verbTo treat as inferior.