Blackbird

·add. ·noun Among slavers and pirates, a negro or Polynesian.

II. Blackbird ·add. ·noun A native of any of the islands near Queensland;

— called also Kanaka.

III. Blackbird ·noun In England, a species of thrush (Turdus merula), a singing bird with a fin note; the merle. In America the name is given to several birds, as the Quiscalus versicolor, or crow blackbird; the Agelaeus phoeniceus, or red-winged blackbird; the cowbird; the rusty grackle, ·etc. ·see Redwing.