Definition of BLACK. Meaning of BLACK. Synonyms of BLACK
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Definition of BLACK
Black Black Black, adv.
Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce
blackness.
Black Black Black, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
Blacking.] [See Black, a., and cf. Blacken.]
1. To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
They have their teeth blacked, both men and women,
for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore
they will black theirs. --Hakluyt.
Sins which black thy soul. --J. Fletcher.
2. To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by
applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
Black Black Black, n.
1. 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.
Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and
the suit of night. --Shak.
2. A black pigment or dye.
3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or
shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain
African races.
4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.)
Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the
like show death terrible. --Bacon.
That was the full time they used to wear blacks for
the death of their fathers. --Sir T.
North.
5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest
by being black.
The black or sight of the eye. --Sir K.
Digby.
6. A stain; a spot; a smooch.
Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks
of lust. --Rowley.
Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that
statement in black and white.
Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color.
Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by
calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief
ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing.
Berlin black. See under Berlin.
