Definitions for black book

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

black′ book`(n.)

  1. a book containing a blacklist.

Origin of black book:

1470–80

Princeton's WordNet

  1. blacklist, black book, shitlist(noun)

    a list of people who are out of favor

Wiktionary

  1. Black Book(Noun)

    Any of several documents or books that have (or had) black covers

Webster Dictionary

  1. Black book(u)

    one of several books of a political character, published at different times and for different purposes; -- so called either from the color of the binding, or from the character of the contents

  2. Black book(u)

    a book compiled in the twelfth century, containing a description of the court of exchequer of England, an official statement of the revenues of the crown, etc

  3. Black book(u)

    a book containing details of the enormities practiced in the English monasteries and religious houses, compiled by order of their visitors under Henry VIII., to hasten their dissolution

  4. Black book(u)

    a book of admiralty law, of the highest authority, compiled in the reign of Edw. III

  5. Black book(u)

    a book kept for the purpose of registering the names of persons liable to censure or punishment, as in the English universities, or the English armies

  6. Black book(u)

    any book which treats of necromancy


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