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negro |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Negro \Ne"gro\, n.; pl {Negroes}. [Sp. or Pg negro, fr negro black, L. niger; perh. akin to E. night.] A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Negro \Ne"gro\, a. Of or pertaining to negroes; black. {Negro bug} (Zo["o]l.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produced a very disagreeable flavor. {negro corn}, the Indian millet or durra; -- so called in the West Indies. see {Durra}. --McElrath. {Negro fly} (Zo["o]l.), a black dipterous fly ({Psila ros[ae]}) which in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; -- called also {carrot fly}. {Negro head} (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. [Cant] --McElrath. {Negro monkey} (Zo["o]l.), the moor monkey. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: negro adj : relating to or characteristic of or being a member of the traditional racial division of mankind having brown to black pigmentation and tightly curled hair n : a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa) [syn: {Black}, {black person}, {blackamoor}, {Negro}, {Negroid}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: NEGRO, n. The _piece de resistance_ in the American political problem. Representing him by the letter n, the Republicans begin to build their equation thus: "Let n = the white man." This however, appears to give an unsatisfactory solution.
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