Crossword clues for blackhead
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scaup \Scaup\ (sk[add]p), n. [See Scalp a bed of oysters or mussels.]
A bed or stratum of shellfish; scalp. [Scot.]
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(Zo["o]l.) A scaup duck. See below.
Scaup duck (Zo["o]l.), any one of several species of northern ducks of the genus Aythya, or Fuligula. The adult males are, in large part, black. The three North American species are: the greater scaup duck ( Aythya marila, var. nearctica), called also broadbill, bluebill, blackhead, flock duck, flocking fowl, and raft duck; the lesser scaup duck ( A. affinis), called also little bluebill, river broadbill, and shuffler; the tufted, or ring-necked, scaup duck ( A. collaris), called also black jack, ringneck, ringbill, ringbill shuffler, etc. See Illust. of Ring-necked duck, under Ring-necked. The common European scaup, or mussel, duck ( A. marila), closely resembles the American variety.
Broadbill \Broad"bill`\, n.
(Zo["o]l.) A wild duck ( Aythya marila, or Fuligula marila), which appears in large numbers on the eastern coast of the United States, in autumn; -- called also bluebill, blackhead, raft duck, and scaup duck. See Scaup duck.
(Zo["o]l.) The shoveler. See Shoveler.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) A comedo, a skin blemish, a type of acne vulgaris, where a pore becomes clogged with a dark, hard, cheesy keratin-filled substance forming a hard black "head" on the skin's surface. 2 A form of histomoniasis in poultry, characterized by cyanotic discoloration on the bird's head. 3 A scaup: a kind of duck.
WordNet
n. a black-tipped plug clogging a pore of the skin [syn: comedo]
Wikipedia
Blackhead can refer to:
In biology:
- Blackhead, a blocked sweat/sebaceous duct of the skin known medically as an open comedo
- Blackhead disease, which affects poultry
Place names:
- Blackhead Range, a mountain range in the northern Catskills of New York, US
- Blackhead Mountain, a peak in the Blackhead Range of mountains, New York, US
- Blackhead Point, also known as Tai Pau Mai, a cape in Hong Kong
- Blackhead, Newfoundland and Labrador, one of the eastern extreme communities of Canada
Blackhead is a mountain located in Greene County, New York. The mountain is part of the Blackhead range of the Catskill Mountains. Blackhead is flanked to the northeast by Black Dome.
Blackhead stands within the watershed of the Hudson River, which drains into New York Bay. The southwest side of Blackhead drains into East Kill, thence into Schoharie Creek, the Mohawk River, and the Hudson River. The north side of Blackhead drains into the headwaters of Batavia Kill, and thence into Schoharie Creek. The east side of Blackhead drains into Trout Brook, thence into Shingle Kill, Catskill Creek, and the Hudson River.
Blackhead is within New York's Catskill Park. The Long Path, a long-distance hiking trail from New York City to Albany, is contiguous with the Escarpment Trail.
Usage examples of "blackhead".
No matter how many showers I had, I still had grime under my nails and big blackheads on my skin.
Hollywood Barbershop where they removed blackheads for fifty cents, around the corner of Clark where Charna Felder lived, the F.
The thin crafty face, the quick black eyes and the restlessness, the blackheads and the oily skin, the perpetual fidgeting, the grin so shrewd and knowing, all made a bad impression on Uncle Benjy.
That on occasion she doubtless has the same messy problems of blackheads, ingrowing toenails and sweaty armpits as the rest of us.
South-west of Brussels, in the village of Braine-le-Comte, His Royal Highness the Prince William, Prince of Orange, heir to the throne of the Netherlands, and Duke, Earl, Lord, Stadtholder, Margrave and Count of more towns and provinces than even he could remember, leaned forward in his chair, fixed his gaze at the mirror which stood on the dressing-table and, with exquisite care, squeezed a blackhead on his chin.
GOT TIME TO DROP IN -- SMILE WHEN YOU WALK PAST Tara-boom, tara-boom, tara-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM, past the Hollywood Barbershop where they removed blackheads for fifty cents, around the corner of Clark where Charna Felder lived, the F.
There are cases in which they each grow a blackhead in the exact same spot on the nose at the exact same time.
After eight days with Judge Mattachine my patience eroded and I hopped the first pod southbound, taking with me all my earthly possessions, consisting of my toothflash and blackhead remover, my key to the master information output, my most recent thumb-account statement, two changes of clothing, and my lucky piece, a Byzantine gold coin, a nomisma of Alexius I.
Now he had pimples on his cheeks and brow, acne in the hollows of his temples, nasty nests of blackheads around his nose, and a cyst on his neck that would soon have to be removed by Gangli, the compound doctor.