Black

·noun A black pigment or dye.

II. Black ·noun A stain; a spot; a smooch.

III. Black ·noun A black garment or dress; as, she wears black.

IV. Black ·noun Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.

V. Black ·adv Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

VI. Black ·noun The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.

VII. Black ·adj To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

VIII. Black ·adj Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

IX. Black ·adj To make black; to Blacken; to Soil; to Sully.

X. Black ·noun A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; ·esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

XI. Black ·adj In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

XII. Black ·noun 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.

XIII. Black ·adj Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.

XIV. Black ·adj 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.