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verb

Black v. t. (past & past part. blacked; pres. part. blacking)

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." "Sins which black thy soul."

To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

noun

blacking n.

Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.

The act or process of making black.

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Etymology of 'Blacking'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Blacking" Quotes from Famous Books

... get the students together and advise them on keeping their faces clean, and blacking their boots, &c.—Amherst Indicator, ...

— A Collection of College Words and Customs • Benjamin Homer Hall

... Richard Frayne had taken a desperate plunge. "Why, a score of his chums had better have died than him! I didn't ought never to ha' left him last night, seeing what a state he was in. You might ha' saved his life, Jerry, and done more good than you'll ever do blacking boots and brushing clothes, if yer lives to a hundred ...

— The Queen's Scarlet - The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne • George Manville Fenn

... injure that kind of leather. Tell him you don't know how to black morocco; yes, that's morocco. He will get you something himself in Saumur to polish those boots with. I have heard that they put sugar into the blacking to ...

— Eugenie Grandet • Honore de Balzac

... Peterkin; a small foot-rug in case the ground should be damp; some paint-boxes of the little boys'; a box of fish-hooks for Solomon John; an ink-bottle, carefully done up in a great deal of newspaper, which was fortunate, as the ink was oozing out; some old magazines, and a blacking-bottle; and at the bottom, a sun-dial. It was all very entertaining, and there seemed to be something for every occasion but the present. Old Mr. Bromwick did not wonder the basket was so heavy. It was all so interesting that nobody ...

— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale

... entreated me to kindly excuse the waiting-maid for jumping with diffidence whenever I pop upon her unpremeditatedly on the stairs, being a nervous girl and unaccustomed to dark-complexioned gentlemen—though her own countenance, from superabundance of blacking and smuts, being of a far superior nigritude, it is I myself who should be more justified ...

— Baboo Jabberjee, B.A. • F. Anstey

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