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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Black \Black\, a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[ae]c; akin to Icel. blakkr
     dark, swarthy, Sw. bl["a]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. ?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.
  
              O night, with hue so black!           --Shak.
  
     2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in
        darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the
        heavens black with clouds.
  
              I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud.
                                                    --Shak.
  
     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.
  
     4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen;
        foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
  
     Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words;
           as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired,
           black-visaged.
  
     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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), the common American bear ({Ursus
        Americanus).
  
     Black beast. See B[^e]te noire.
  
     Black beetle (Zo["o]l.), the common large cockroach
        ({Blatta orientalis).
  
     Black and blue, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh,
        which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. ``To pinch
        the slatterns black and blue.'' --Hudibras.
  
     Black bonnet (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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+(Zo["o]l.),+a+flea+beetle+({Haltica+nemorum">Black flea (Zo["o]l.), 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 fly. (Zo["o]l.)
        (a) In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged
            fly of the genus Simulium of several species,
            exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern
            forests. The larv[ae] are aquatic.
        (b) A black plant louse, as the bean aphis ({A. fab[ae]).
            
  
     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. (Zo["o]l.) 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 (Zo["o]l.), a fish of the Mississippi valley
        ({Cycleptus elongatus), of the sucker family; the
        Missouri sucker.
  
     Black lemur (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), 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 (Zo["o]l.), an American hawk ({Buteo
        Harlani).
  
     Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart;
          Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Black \Black\, adv.
     Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce
     blackness.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Black \Black\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blacked; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Blacking.] [See Black, a., and cf. Blacken.]
     1. To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
  
              They have their teeth blacked, both men and women,
              for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore
              they will black theirs.               --Hakluyt.
  
              Sins which black thy soul.            --J. Fletcher.
  
     2. To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by
        applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :


  Black \Black\, n.
     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
        African races.
  
     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.
                                                    North.
  
     5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest
        by being black.
  
              The black or sight of the eye.        --Sir K.
                                                    Digby.
  
     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.
  
     Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color.
  
     Ivory black, 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.
  
     Berlin black. See under Berlin.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :


  black
       adj 1: being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having
              little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all
              incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as
              coal"; "rich black soil" [syn: achromatic] [ant: white]
       2: of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin
          especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great
          people--a black people--...injected new meaning and
          dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther
          King Jr. [ant: white]
       3: marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks";
          "black words"
       4: stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or
          dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black
          heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader
          of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents
          of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister
          intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy [syn: dark,
           sinister]
       5: offering little or no hope; "the future looked black";
          "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has
          always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim
          view of things" [syn: bleak, dim]
       6: (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire
          consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on
          Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a
          disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines,
          if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles
          Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to
          win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error" [syn: calamitous,
           disastrous, fatal, fateful]
       7: (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood;
          "a face black with fury" [syn: blackened]
       8: extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the
          pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler"
          [syn: pitch-black, pitch-dark]
       9: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
          "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ...
          to savage mordant wit" [syn: grim, mordant]
       10: (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black
           propaganda"
       11: distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no
           taxes" [syn: bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled]
       12: (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing
           disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest
           records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel
           Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat";
           "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful
           display of cowardice" [syn: disgraceful, ignominious,
            inglorious, opprobrious, shameful]
       13: (of coffee) without cream or sugar
       14: dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"
       15: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing
           outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
       n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least
            lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn:
             blackness] [ant: white]
       2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total
          darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness,
           lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness]
       3: British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who
          formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat
          (1728-1799) [syn: Joseph Black]
       4: popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927) [syn: Shirley
          Temple Black, Shirley Temple]
       5: a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose
          ancestors came from Africa) [syn: Black person, blackamoor,
           Negro, Negroid]
       6: (board games) the darker pieces [ant: white]
       7: black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore
          black"
       v : make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling";
           "The ceiling blackened" [syn: blacken, melanize, melanise,
            nigrify] [ant: whiten]

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) :


  Black, AL (town, FIPS 7120)
    Location: 31.00939 N, 85.74321 W
    Population (1990): 174 (80 housing units)
    Area: 8.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 36314
  Black, MO
    Zip code(s): 63625
  Black, TX
    Zip code(s): 79035

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary :


  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.

From English-Welsh Freedict dictionary :


  black [blæk]
       du

From English-Welsh Freedict dictionary :


  black [blæk]
       du

From eng-afr :


  Black
       Swart See

From eng-afr :


  black
       swart
       swart

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary :


  Black
  
  الأسود

From English-Croatian Freedict Dictionary :


  black
  
  crn, crna, crne, crni, crnih, crnilo, crno, crnom, crnu, sraman, taman