blacks
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /blæks/
Noun
blacks
- plural of black
- A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
- (Britain) Soot flying in the air.
- Black garments, etc.
- Francis Bacon
- Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.
- Sir T. North
- That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers.
- Francis Bacon
Verb
blacks
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of black
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for blacks in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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