Definition of Blacking. Meaning of Blacking. Synonyms of Blacking

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Definition of Blacking

Blacking
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.
Blacking
Blacking Black"ing, n. 1. Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves. 2. The act or process of making black.

Meaning of Blacking from wikipedia

- Look up blacking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Blacking may refer to: Blacking (polish), a nineteenth-century shoe polish Blacking up, putting on...
- Anthony Randoll Blacking (22 October 1928 – 24 January 1990) was a British ethnomusicologist and social anthropologist. John Blacking was born in Guildford...
- making blacking around 1795–98 in London, initially in partnership with, and then competing against other companies. Jonathan Warren's Blacking company...
- people were relegated. Owing to the discrimination of the day, "corking (or blacking) up" provided an often singular opportunity for African-American musicians...
- Bostik is part of the French-based Arkema group. In 1889, the Boston Blacking Company, a producer of leather colourings and dyes, was founded in Chelsea...
- Syncope Other names Fainting, blacking out, p****ing out, swooning A 1744 oil painting by Pietro Longhi called Fainting Specialty Neurology, cardiology...
- vocals on "Blacking Out the Friction", harmony vocals on "I Was a Kaleidoscope" Jeff Saltzman – mastering John Vanderslice – low vocals on "Blacking Out the...
- "drunk as much or more without memory loss", compared to instances of blacking out. Subsequent research has indicated that blackouts are most likely caused...
- The police sketch looked remarkably like him and he had even described blacking out during the night in question; his only alibi was that a friend journaled...
- today. Born in Portsmouth, ****ens left school at age 12 to work in a boot-blacking factory when his father John was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. After...