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1.nounThe colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
2.nounA black dye or pigment.
3.nounA pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
4.noun(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
5.noun(sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
6.nounBlackness, the condition of having dark skin.
7.nounThe black ball.
8.nounThe edge of home plate.
9.nounA type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
10.nounBlackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
11.noun(in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces."At this point black makes a disastrous move."
12.nounSomething, or a part of a thing, which is black.
13.nounA stain; a spot.
14.nounA dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.
15.nounMarijuana.
16.verbTo make black; to blacken.
17.verbTo apply blacking to (something).
18.verbTo boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.