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.
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.
Black(a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
Black(a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
Black(a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
Black(a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
Black(adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
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.
Black(n.) A black pigment or dye.
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.
Black(n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
Black(n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
Black(n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
Black(n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.
Blacked(imp. & p. p.) of Black
Blacking(n.) Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
Blacking(n.) The act or process of making black.
Blacking(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Black
Blackly(adv.) In a black manner; darkly, in color; gloomily; threateningly; atrociously.
Blackness(n.) The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.
Blacks(n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
Blacks(n. pl.) Soot flying in the air.
Blacks(n. pl.) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
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