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Definition: Berlin black
, n. [The capital of Prussia]
1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind
the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th
century, at Berlin.
2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called
also Berlin wool
, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead
surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware.
, Prussian blue. --Ure.
, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green
dye, and similar to Prussian blue.
, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from
which figures and other delicate articles are
manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in
imitation of bronze.
, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and
the materials for such work.
, worsted embroidery.
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.
Black is the badge of hell,
The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. --Shak.
2. A black pigment or dye.
3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or
shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain
4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.)
Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the
like show death terrible. --Bacon.
That was the full time they used to wear blacks for
the death of their fathers. --Sir T.
5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest
by being black.
The black or sight of the eye. --Sir K.
6. A stain; a spot; a smooch.
Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks
of lust. --Rowley.
Black and white
, writing or print; as, I must have that
statement in black and white.
, a pigment of a blue black color.
, 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.
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