Meaning

• The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.

• A black dye or pigment.

• A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.

• (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.

• (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.

• Blackness, the condition of having dark skin.

• The black ball.

• The edge of home plate.

• A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

• Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).

• (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.

  "At this point black makes a disastrous move."

• Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.

• A stain; a spot.

• A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

• Marijuana.

Meaning

• To make black; to blacken.

• To apply blacking to (something).

• To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Meaning

• (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.

• (of a place, etc) Without light.

• (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

• Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.

  "black drinking fountain; black hospital"

• (of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red

  "I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens."

• Bad; evil; ill-omened.

• Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.

  "He shot her a black look."

• (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.

• Overcrowded.

• (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.

  "Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer."

• Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).

• Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.

• Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

  "After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance."

• Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.

  "5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects."

• Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

• Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic

• Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.

• Foul; dirty.