Chapter Biweekly to Black hole of B by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

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.

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.

Blackamoor
(Black"a*moor) n. [Black + Moor.] A negro or negress. Shak.

Black art
(Black" art`) The art practiced by conjurers and witches; necromancy; conjuration; magic.

This name was given in the Middle Ages to necromancy, under the idea that the latter term was derived from niger black, instead of nekro`s, a dead person, and mantei`a, divination. Wright.

Black-a-vised
(Black"-a-vised`) a. Dark-visaged; swart.

Blackball
(Black"ball`) n.

1. A composition for blacking shoes, boots, etc.; also, one for taking impressions of engraved work.

2. A ball of black color, esp. one used as a negative in voting; — in this sense usually two words.

Blackball
(Black"ball`), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blackballed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Blackballing.]

1. To vote against, by putting a black ball into a ballot box; to reject or exclude, as by voting against with black balls; to ostracize.

He was blackballed at two clubs in succession.
Thackeray.

2. To blacken (leather, shoes, etc.) with blacking.