Black and white
- 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.
[1913 Webster]
Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
2. A black pigment or dye. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. [1913 Webster]
Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster]
5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. [1913 Webster]
The black or sight of the eye. --Sir K. Digby. [1913 Webster]
6. A stain; a spot; a smooch. [1913 Webster]
Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. --Rowley. [1913 Webster]
{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}. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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