blacks

See also: Blacks and bläcks

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /blæks/
• Rhymes: -æks

Noun

blacks

1. plural of black
2. A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
3. (UK) Soot flying in the air.
4. Black garments, etc.
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:

     Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.

   • 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes:

     that was the full time they vsed to were blackes for the death of their fathers

Verb

blacks

1. third-person singular simple present indicative of black

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “blacks”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French

Noun

blacks m or f

1. plural of black

Swedish

Noun

blacks

1. indefinite genitive singular of black