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noun

Negro n. (pl. negroes)

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.

A person of dark skin color descended at least in part from African negroes; in the United States, an African-American. (U.S. usage, sometimes considered offensive.)

adjective

Negro adj. Of or pertaining to negroes; black.

Negro bug (Zool.), a minute black bug common on the raspberry and blackberry. It produces a very disagreeable flavor.

negro corn, the Indian millet or durra; so called in the West Indies. See Durra.

Negro fly (Zool.), a black dipterous fly (Psila rosae) which, in the larval state, is injurious to carrots; called also carrot fly.

Negro head (Com.), Cavendish tobacco. (Cant)

Negro monkey (Zool.), the moor monkey.

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"Negro" Quotes from Famous Books

... his ancient negro handmaiden, as he pushed away the chop and mashed potato, and even his glass of claret, untasted, in his old-fashioned dining room on West Twenty-third Street, "you ain't got no appetite at ...

— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train

... DAHOMEY (150), a negro kingdom of undefined limits, and under French protectorate, in W. Africa, N. of the Slave Coast; the religious rites of the natives are sanguinary, they offer human victims in sacrifice; is an agricultural country, yields ...

— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... strength enough to resume the conversation. She then inquired, "When and where was it that he died? How did you lose this portrait? It was found wrapped in some coarse clothes, lying in a stall in the market-house, on Saturday evening. Two negro women, servants of one of my friends, strolling through the market, found it and brought it to their mistress, who, recognising the portrait, sent it to me. To whom did that bundle ...

— Arthur Mervyn - Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793 • Charles Brockden Brown

... ourselves of the habit of profanity or using vulgar language. No one doubts that a negro who believes in sorcery, if told that if he uttered an oath, Voodoo would fall upon him and cause him to waste away, would never swear again. Or that a South Sea Islander would not do the same for fear of taboo. Now both these forms of sorcery are really ...

— The Mystic Will • Charles Godfrey Leland

... door, she waited until the wood was emptied near by, and paying the man, requested the sawyer to commence sawing it forthwith; then lifting the latch softly, she entered the humble tenement. It contained one small room, poorly furnished, and with but few comforts. An old negro woman sat shivering over a few coals on the hearth, trying in vain to ...

— May Brooke • Anna H. Dorsey

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