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Definition of Blackwater
1. Noun. Any of several human or animal diseases characterized by dark urine resulting from rapid breakdown of red blood cells.
Definition of Blackwater
1. Noun. Waste water likely to contain significant quantities of fecal matter. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blackwater
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackwater
Literary usage of Blackwater
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1901)
"because it frequently follows in the wake of this disease. The occurrence of
blackwater fever in people who have previously suffered from ..."
2. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Charles Welsh, Douglas Hyde, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"CROSSING THE blackwater. AD 1603. We stood so steady, All under fire, ... 'T was
by blackwater, When snows were white, 'T was by blackwater, ..."
3. From the Log of the Velsa by Arnold Bennett (1914)
"CHAPTER XIX THE INCOMPARABLE blackwater TIME was when I agreed with the popular,
and the guide-book, verdict that the Orwell is the finest estuary in these ..."
4. Monographic Medicine by Albion Walter Hewlett, Henry Leopold Elsner (1916)
"blackwater Fever blackwater fever, a condition which occurs almost exclusively among
... It has long been known that blackwater fever occurs chiefly, ..."
5. Transactions by Epidemiological Society of London (1899)
"blackwater FEVER. BY WH CROSSE, Consulting Medical Officer, The Royal Niger ...
When I first went to West Africa, in 1886, blackwater fever was a complaint ..."
6. Poets' Country by John Churton Collins, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, William John Loftie, Michael MacMillan (1907)
"THE blackwater AT LISMORE CASTLE The blackwater at Lismore Castle, Co. ...
which of the Englishman Is called blackwater, is perhaps the most ..."
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