(a.) 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.
(a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
(a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
(a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
(adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A black pigment or dye.
(n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
(n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
(n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
(n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
(n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.
(a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
(a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.
Example Sentences:
(1) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
(2) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
(3) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
(4) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
(5) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
(6) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
(7) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(8) It is 30 years since Paul Canoville became the first black footballer to play for Chelsea.
(9) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
(10) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
(11) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
(12) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
(13) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(14) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(15) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
(16) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.
(17) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
(18) Of particular note is the difference between Black American and Nigerian figures.
(19) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
(20) Its abuse has become concentrated among post-high school age, black males in a limited number of cities, especially Washington, DC.
Inkiness
Definition:
(n.) The state or quality of being inky; blackness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Though the starlings looked like a dark swarm of bees, they had two inky blobs in their midst, for they had acquired a pair of crow interlopers.
(2) The lights of smart hotels and restaurants bob in inky water, and the iconic bronze-cast Liver birds look down from above on the city’s Liver building.
(3) Photograph: Supplied Compared with his famously mute mother, the prince has gained a reputation for bombarding ministers with his “black spider memos” – letters written, it is said, in his black inky scrawl on red-crested HRH notepaper.
(4) Feeding off the spectacular scale of American land art as a student in the 1970s, he first shot to prominence in the late 80s when he filled Matt's Gallery in east London with sump oil, drawing visitors into an inky black abyss.
(5) Peter Hain, the former cabinet minister who lobbied with Charles for NHS trials of complementary medicine, summed up his influence in this way: “He could get a hearing where all the noble, diligent lobbying of the various different associations in the complementary medicine field found it hard.” Letters, written in black inky scrawl, are a key part of his lobbying arsenal .
(6) After his Burberry show, Christopher Bailey enthused about flowers being "fragile and vulnerable", Christopher Kane talked about their "sexual undertones", while at House of Holland , dresses were decorated with the inky drawings of roses used in tattoo parlours.
(7) Best of all there are chicken enchiladas, in the inky blackness that is that mole, a dense, deep thick sauce with dark caramel tones and chilli heat but most of all a robust ripe savouriness.
(8) • 145-147 West Port, 0131-229 4431, edinburghbooks.net , westportbookfestival.org , 13-16 Oct Inky Fingers @ Forest Cafe Photograph: Chris Scott In 2010 Inky Fingers began as an open mic night at the Forest Cafe, after Harry Giles and Alice Tarbuck spotted a yawning gap in the Edinburgh scene.
(9) They are pictures of supersaturated shades – inky reds, livid oranges, fizzing greens – so unlike the tonal politeness of his earlier pale work.
(10) Bake for 15–20 minutes, or until the topping is golden brown and the blackberries burst and ooze their inky black juice.
(11) Birds and insects fall quiet, streams turn inky and trees become stunted, their leaves blackened and scrunched up, like fists.
(12) Adams's accuser was not some inky-fingered hack, but a respected musicologist, Richard Taruskin of the University of California.
(13) David Lynch album cover Crazy Clown Time album cover With its fateful inky finger casting an ominous aura, the artwork for David Lynch's first solo album Crazy Clown Time taps the shadowy horror of silent cinema's expressionist masterpieces – such as The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari (1920) – and his own debut, Eraserhead.
(14) To be clear, in the inky print world of the 1990s, the pleasure of putting out an exclusive at 10 or so in the evening, and knowing newsdesks would at that instant be bollocking my peers and rivals for missing the story, well there was nothing quite like it.
(15) The inky stamps are gone now and my son is not limited to four.
(16) In moments of danger, their ink sacs release clouds of blackness to give the impression that they're much bigger than they really are and, with a wave of their big inky capes, they make a quick getaway.
(17) A gnawingly stunning Mary Magdalene gazing up at you with inky eyes as she metaphorically washes your feet with her hair?
(18) Most facilities are in and around the adobe village of Pisco Elqui where inky skies abound.
(19) He lost his footing in an inky stairwell and nearly fell down the concrete steps.
(20) The result is a version of Paltrow that we have seen nowhere near enough of: light, frothy, easy-going; eating raw clams from the shell, burying her nose in big glasses of inky red wines, enthusing over huge, steaming vats of paella.