These are the meanings of the letters EELBACK when you unscramble them.
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Abele (n.)
The white poplar (Populus alba).
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Black (a.)
Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
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Black (a.)
In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
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Black (a.)
Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
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Black (a.)
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
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Black (adv.)
Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
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Black (n.)
That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
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Black (n.)
A black pigment or dye.
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Black (n.)
A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
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Black (n.)
A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
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Black (n.)
Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
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Black (n.)
The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
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Black (n.)
A stain; a spot; a smooch.
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Black (a.)
To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
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Black (a.)
To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
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Bleak (a.)
Without color; pale; pallid.
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Bleak (a.)
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
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Bleak (a.)
Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
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Bleak (a.)
A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
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Cable (n.)
A large, strong rope or chain, of considerable length, used to retain a vessel at anchor, and for other purposes. It is made of hemp, of steel wire, or of iron links.
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Cable (n.)
A rope of steel wire, or copper wire, usually covered with some protecting or insulating substance; as, the cable of a suspension bridge; a telegraphic cable.
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Cable (n.)
A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding.
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Cable (v. t.)
To fasten with a cable.
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Cable (v. t.)
To ornament with cabling. See Cabling.
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Cable (v. t. & i.)
To telegraph by a submarine cable