(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.
Mulatto
Definition:
(n.) The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.
Example Sentences:
(1) In order to test the utility of discrete cranial traits for estimating genetic distances among populations, estimates of admixture are obtained for gene frequency data and nonmetric cranial data in São Paulo mulattos (M).
(2) It is known from historical records that the population of Cartagena (Colombia) is a mixture of caucasoids (Spaniards) and negroids (Africans) that is named mulattos.
(3) It was alleged that Martin Van Buren dressed up in women’s clothes, that Abraham Lincoln fathered mulatto children – this is part and parcel of American politics.” But it would be hard not to conclude that “dirty trickster” is a fair label to pin on a man who firmed up his reputation for hardball tactics working on Ronald Reagan’s presidential campaigns, had a hand in the prostitute-laden downfall of the former New York governor Eliot Spitzer and consulted for a number of controversial foreign clients, including the president of the Philippines, Ferdinand Marcos.
(4) Seventy percent of patients with solitary lymphoma and 80% with immunoproliferative small intestinal disease were mulatto.
(5) But according to Karl Evanzz, author of The Messenger: The Rise And Fall Of Elijah Muhammad, his real name was Wali Dodd Fard, “a mulatto who immigrated to the United States from New Zealand in the early 1900s”.
(6) For both sexes, blacks and mulattos are at higher risk than whites for cancer of the esophagus, stomach, and liver and for myeloma; for prostate cancer in males; and for gall bladder, pancreas, and cervix uteri cancers in females.
(7) Other times, the discovery of a “MU” (Mulatto) or “B” (Black) on a grandparent’s or great grandparent’s census record had uncovered the truth.
(8) Thus, in addition to reporting the finding of a null phenotype of placental alkaline phosphatase in a dark mulatto newborn from a black mixed population of Bahia, Brazil, here we present other evidence for the presence of the ALPP*Q0 allele with considerably high frequency in this population.
(9) A 6 month-old mulatto boy was admitted on account of acute gastroenteritis, malnutrition and dehydration.
(10) Content of cholesterol and total triglycerides was studied in blood plasma of 397 healthy volunteers, 299 of which belonged to white race and 99 persons--to negroid race (mulatto and negroes).
(11) It’s the state that passed “one of the harshest laws” regarding slavery for “teaching reading and writing to any Negro or mulatto” in 1847.
(12) Median ages for black and mulatto slaves suggest that the population was young.
(13) The frequency, morphology, symmetry and asymmetry of the retro-articular process of the human temporal bone are studied in 811 adult skulls, being 386 from whites (301 men and 85 women), 245 from Negroes (137 men and 108 women), 138 from mulattoes (94 men and 44 women) and 42 from Japanese (31 men and 11 women).
(14) The analysis of the allele and haplotype frequencies obtained, together with the genetic distances calculated with other populations, showed that most of the HLA genes of mulattos are from negroids and caucasoids.
(15) The MTL involved only young adult Mulatto and African patients in whom malabsorption and abdominal pain were the major clinical features.
(16) Results showed: (1) Higher prevalence of S. mansoni infection, greater egg load elimination and higher and earlier morbidity of the chronic forms of the disease in the southeast areas of Capitão Andrade and Padre Paraiso; (2) The incidence of hepatosplenic form is higher in some family clusters, in whites and mulattos in all the endemic areas but develop earlier in the southeast; (3) The prevalence and morbidity of schistosomiasis are decreasing both in the mass treated northeast and in the untreated southeast areas; (4) The mass treatment reduces rapidly the prevalence of the infection and the morbidity of the disease but can not control it because of the frequent reinfections due to the intensity of man-water contact.
(17) Subjective assessment of Black ancestries carried out in a five point visual scale (White, Light Mulatto, Medium Mulatto, Dark Mulatto and Black) allowed to show that the ALAD*2 allele frequency decreases from 8% in Whites to 0% in Blacks.
(18) Gene frequencies of several red cell and serum gentic markers were determined in the three main racial groups--whites, mulattoes and Negroes--of the Cuban population.
(19) In addition to the well-known preponderance of thyroid carcinoma in women, a majority of lesions occurred in white patients in this series despite a higher hospital admission rate for coloreds (mulattos).
(20) He was a mulatto, of Huguenot Calvinist and Bantu African slave descent.