Blacks

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun ·pl Soot flying in the air.

II. Blacks ·noun ·pl Black garments, ·etc. ·see Black, ·noun, 4.

III. Blacks ·noun ·pl The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.