BLACK
\blˈak], \blˈak], \b_l_ˈa_k]\
Definitions of BLACK
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
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black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
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the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
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a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
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total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
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marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
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of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
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soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
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extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler"
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(board games) the darker pieces
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dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"
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(of coffee) without cream or sugar
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(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
By Princeton University
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make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
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black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
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(chess or checkers) the darker pieces
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the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
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a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
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total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
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marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
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of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
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soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
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extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler"
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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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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Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
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Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
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Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
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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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A black pigment or dye.
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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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A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
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Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
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The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
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To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
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To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
By Oddity Software
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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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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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Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
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Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
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Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
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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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A black pigment or dye.
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A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
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Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
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The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
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To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
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To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
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A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
By Noah Webster.
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Entirely without light; of the darkest hue; opposite to white; wrapped in darkness; dismal; gloomy or forbidding; without moral light or goodness; evil; threatening; clouded with anger; sullen.
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The darkest color; the opposite of white; a black color or dye; a negro; mourning.
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To make black; blacken; apply blacking to.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop
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Of the darkest color: without color: obscure: dismal: sullen: horrible.
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Black color: absence of color: a negro: mourning.
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To make black: to soil or stain.
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BLACKNESS.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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To make or become black; blacken.
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Reflecting little or no light; dark; swarthy; gloomy; dismal; forbidding; sad; evil; malignant; deadly.
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The absence of color, or the darkest of all colors; sable.
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Anything black.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Want of colour; the darkest of all colours; a negro; a black dress; mourning; a particle of soot or black dirt.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The opposite of white; dark; cloudy; dismal; sullen; very wicked.
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Name of the darkest of colours; a negro.
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To make black; to dirty or soil.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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