'Black' definitions:
Definition of 'Black'
From: GCIDE
- Black \Black\ (bl[a^]k), a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[ae]c; akin to Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bl[aum]ck ink, Dan. bl[ae]k, OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS. bl[=a]c, E. bleak pallid. [root]98.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- O night, with hue so black! --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. [1913 Webster]
- I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black day." "Black despair." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. [1913 Webster]
- Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words; as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired, black-visaged. [1913 Webster]
- Black act, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts.
- Black angel (Zool.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida (Holacanthus tricolor), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black.
- Black antimony (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, Sb2S3, used in pyrotechnics, etc.
- Black bear (Zool.), the common American bear ({Ursus Americanus}).
- Black beast. See B[^e]te noire.
- Black beetle (Zool.), the common large cockroach ({Blatta orientalis}).
- Black bonnet (Zool.), the black-headed bunting ({Embriza Sch[oe]niclus}) of Europe.
- Black canker, a disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar.
- Black cat (Zool.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See Fisher.
- Black cattle, any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in distinction from dairy cattle. [Eng.]
- Black cherry. See under Cherry.
- Black cockatoo (Zool.), the palm cockatoo. See Cockatoo.
- Black copper. Same as Melaconite.
- Black currant. (Bot.) See Currant.
- Black diamond. (Min.) See Carbonado.
- Black draught (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia.
- Black drop (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar.
- Black earth, mold; earth of a dark color. --Woodward.
- Black flag, the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance.
- Black flea (Zool.), a flea beetle (Haltica nemorum) injurious to turnips.
- Black flux, a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter. --Brande & C.
- Black Forest [a translation of G. Schwarzwald], a forest in Baden and W["u]rtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest.
- Black game, or Black grouse. (Zool.) See Blackcock, Grouse, and Heath grouse.
- Black grass (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species {Juncus Gerardi}, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay.
- Black gum (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or pepperidge. See Tupelo.
- Black Hamburg (grape) (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of dark purple or "black" grape.
- Black horse (Zool.), a fish of the Mississippi valley (Cycleptus elongatus), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker.
- Black lemur (Zool.), the Lemurniger of Madagascar; the acoumbo of the natives.
- Black list, a list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See Blacklist, v. t.
- Black manganese (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese, MnO2.
- Black Maria, the close wagon in which prisoners are carried to or from jail.
- Black martin (Zool.), the chimney swift. See Swift.
- Black moss (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See Tillandsia.
- Black oak. See under Oak.
- Black ocher. See Wad.
- Black pigment, a very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar.
- Black plate, sheet iron before it is tinned. --Knight.
- Black quarter, malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox.
- Black rat (Zool.), one of the species of rats ({Mus rattus}), commonly infesting houses.
- Black rent. See Blackmail, n., 3.
- Black rust, a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain.
- Black sheep, one in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble.
- Black silver. (Min.) See under Silver.
- Black and tan, black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of dogs.
- Black tea. See under Tea.
- Black tin (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand. --Knight.
- Black walnut. See under Walnut.
- Black warrior (Zool.), an American hawk (Buteo Harlani). [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart; Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Black'
From: GCIDE
- Black \Black\, adv. Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Black'
From: GCIDE
- Black \Black\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blacking.] [See Black, a., and cf. Blacken.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. [1913 Webster]
- They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. --Hakluyt. [1913 Webster]
- Sins which black thy soul. --J. Fletcher. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Black'
From: Easton
- Black properly the absence of all colour. In Prov. 7:9 the Hebrew word means, as in the margin of the Revised Version, "the pupil of the eye." It is translated "apple" of the eye in Deut. 32:10; Ps. 17:8; Prov. 7:2. It is a different word which is rendered "black" in Lev. 13:31,37; Cant. 1:5; 5:11; and Zech. 6:2, 6. It is uncertain what the "black marble" of Esther 1:6 was which formed a part of the mosaic pavement.
Black, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Black, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000) :
202
Housing Units (2000) :
102
Land area (2000) :
3.080790 sq. miles (7.979208 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
3.080790 sq. miles (7.979208 sq. km)
FIPS code :
07120
Located within :
Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location :
31.011112 N, 85.744365 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
36314
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Words containing 'Black'
- Blacked,
- Blacking,
- Blackly,
- Blackness,
- Blacks,
- black out,
- Berlin black,
- Black Creek,
- Black Diamond,
- Black Eagle,
- Black Earth,
- Black Flags,
- Black Forest,
- Black Friday,
- Black Hamburg,
- Black Hand,
- Black Hawk,
- Black Jack,
- Black Lick,
- Black Maria,
- Black Mass,
- Black Monday,
- Black Mountain,
- Black Oak,
- Black Point,
- Black River,
- Black Rock,
- Black Rod,
- Black Spanish,
- Black Springs,
- Black Stream,
- Black act,
- Black and tan,
- Black and white,
- Black angel,
- Black antimony,
- Black art,
- Black bass,
- Black bear,
- Black beast,
- Black beetle,
- Black belt,
- Black bonnet,
- Black book,
- Black box,
- Black bryony,
- Black canker,
- Black canons,
- Black cat,
- Black cattle,
- Black chalk,
- Black cherry,
- Black cockatoo,
- Black comedy,
- Black copper,
- Black cumin,
- Black currant,
- Black death,
- Black draught,
- Black drop,
- Black flag,
- Black flea,
- Black flux,
- Black fly,
- Black friar,
- Black frost,
- Black game,
- Black grass,
- Black grouse,
- Black gum,
- Black horehound,
- Black horse,
- Black latten,
- Black lead,
- Black lemur,
- Black letter,
- Black list,
- Black manganese,
- Black martin,
- Black monk,
- Black moss,
- Black ocher,
- Black perch,
- Black pigment,
- Black plate,
- Black pudding,
- Black quarter,
- Black rat,
- Black rent,
- Black rot,
- Black rust,
- Black salmon,
- Black salts,
- Black saltwort,
- Black sheep,
- Black silver,
- Black snake,
- Black squall,
- Black tea,
- Black tin,
- Black turnstone,
- Black vomit,
- Black walnut,
- Black warrior,
- Black wash,
- Black widgeon,
- Black wolf,
- Black, AL,
- Blue black,
- Bone black,
- Brunswick black,
- Charcoal blacks,
- Frankfort black,
- Ivory black,
- Japan black,
- Magnase black,
- Platinum black,
- Smoke black,
- Spanish black,
- To look black,
- aniline black,
- animal black,
- black Harry,
- black africa,
- black african,
- black amber,
- black american,
- black and blue,
- black angus,
- black apricot,
- black archangel,
- black ash,
- black bamboo,
- black bead,
- black bean,
- black bearberry,
- black bee,
- black beech,
- black bile,
- black bindweed,
- black birch,
- black body,
- black bread,
- black bream,
- black brown,
- black buck,
- black buffalo,
- black buffalofish,
- black calla,
- black cap,
- black caraway,
- black catechu,
- black cock,
- black cohosh,
- black coot,
- black coral,
- black cottonwood,
- black crappie,
- black disease,
- black diver,
- black drink,
- black duck,
- black economy,
- black elder,
- black elderberry,
- black english,
- black eye,
- black fantail,
- black flycatcher,
- black fox,
- black friars,
- black fritillary,
- black grama,
- black greasewood,
- black grouper,
- black guillemot,
- black haw,
- black hellebore,
- black hemlock,
- black henbane,
- black hickory,
- black hills,
- black hole,
- black hollander,
- black howler,
- black huckleberry,
- black humor,
- black humour,
- black ice,
- black kite,
- black knapweed,
- black knot,
- black larch,
- black locust,
- black lotion,
- black lovage,
- black lung,
- black magic,
- black maire,
- black mallee,
- black mamba,
- black man,
- black mangrove,
- black margate,
- black mark,
- black market,
- black marketeer,
- black marlin,
- black medick,
- black morel,
- black mulberry,
- black music,
- black muslim,
- black mustard,
- black nightshade,
- black olive,
- black opal,
- black operation,
- black panther,
- black panthers,
- black pea,
- black pepper,
- black person,
- black pine,
- black plague,
- black poplar,
- black power,
- black prince,
- black race,
- black racer,
- black raspberry,
- black rhinoceros,
- black rockweed,
- black rudderfish,
- black sage,
- black sally,
- black salsify,
- black sea,
- black september,
- black skimmer,
- black smoker,
- black snakeroot,
- black spleenwort,
- black spot,
- black spruce,
- black squirrel,
- black stork,
- black sumac,
- black swan,
- black swift,
- black tai,
- black tellurium,
- black tie,
- black titi,
- black tongue,
- black troopers,
- black vernacular,
- black vulture,
- black wattle,
- black weevil,
- black whale,
- black widow,
- black willow,
- black woman,
- bluish black,
- carbon black,
- coal black,
- jet black,
- joseph black,
- pitch black,
- pitch blackness,
- shoe black,
- soot black,
- welsh black,
- Black Canyon City,
- Black Creek, NC,
- Black Creek, WI,
- Black Diamond, FL,
- Black Diamond, WA,
- Black Eagle, MT,
- Black Earth, WI,
- Black Forest, CO,
- Black Hamburg grape,
- Black Hawk County,
- Black Hawk, CO,
- Black Hawk, IA,
- Black Hole of Calcutta,
- Black Jack, MO,
- Black Lick, PA,
- Black Magellanic Cloud,
- Black Mountain, NC,
- Black Oak, AR,
- Black Point, CA,
- Black River Falls,
- Black River, NY,
- Black Rock, AR,
- Black Rock, NM,
- Black Springs, AR,
- Black oxide of manganese,
- Black-a-vised,
- Black-browed,
- Black-eyed,
- Black-faced,
- Black-jack,
- Black-letter,
- Black-mouthed,
- Coal-black,
- Jet-black,
- Pitch-black,
- american black bear,
- asian black grouse,
- asiatic black bear,
- black carpet beetle,
- black cherry tree,
- black cypress pine,
- black english vernacular,
- black felt cup,
- black jack pershing,
- black lung disease,
- black rat snake,
- black rock desert,
- black rudder fish,
- black sea bass,
- black september movement,
- black tree fern,
- black vernacular english,
- black vs white,
- black walnut tree,
- black-and-blue,
- black-and-tan,
- black-and-white,
- black-barred,
- black-coated,
- black-gray,
- black-grey,
- black-haired,
- black-hearted,
- black-lead,
- black-marked,
- black-market,
- black-seeded,
- black-tie,
- blue-black,
- brown-black,
- brownish-black,
- california black oak,
- california black walnut,
- chinese black mushroom,
- european black alder,
- european black currant,
- european black grouse,
- gray-black,
- grayish-black,
- great black cockatoo,
- grey-black,
- greyish-black,
- ink-black,
- inky-black,
- japanese black pine,
- kentucky black bass,
- largemouth black bass,
- largemouthed black bass,
- little black ant,
- mexican black cherry,
- mountain black snake,
- oriental black mushroom,
- purple-black,
- purplish-black,
- shirley temple black,
- slate-black,
- smallmouth black bass,
- smallmouthed black bass,
- soot-black,
- sooty-black,
- spotted black bass,
- violet-black,
- white vs black,
- Black Canyon City, AZ,
- Black Hawk County, IA,
- Black River Falls, WI,
- Black-eyed Susan,
- Black-eyed pea,
- Black-footed ferret,
- Black-necked stork,
- Gentleman usher of the black rod,
- black and gold garden spider,
- black root rot fungus,
- black-and-blue livid,
- black-and-tan terrier,
- black-backed gull,
- black-billed cuckoo,
- black-body radiation,
- black-breasted flycatcher,
- black-breasted plover,
- black-cap chickadee,
- black-capped chickadee,
- black-crested monkey,
- black-crowned thrush,
- black-faced crow,
- black-footed albatross,
- black-headed minnow,
- black-headed snake,
- black-legged tick,
- black-necked cobra,
- black-necked grebe,
- black-necked stilt,
- black-spotted trout,
- black-stem spleenwort,
- black-stemmed spleenwort,
- black-tailed deer,
- black-whiskered vireo,
- black-winged stilt,
- c Dominicans or Black Friars,
- Black Point-Green Point,
- black-crowned night heron,
- black-eyed susan vine,
- black-fronted bush shrike,
- great black-backed gull,
- western black-legged tick,
- Black Point-Green Point, CA,
- black-haired dark-haired,
- blae bluish-black or gray-blue