| Black | |
| 1. adj. alternative case form of black (of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin) | |
| 2. adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless. | |
| 3. adj. (of a place, etc) Without light. | |
| 4. adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin. | |
| 5. adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin. | |
| black drinking fountain; black hospital | |
| 6. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red | |
| I got two red queens, he got one of the black queens. | |
| 7. adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened. | |
| 8. adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen. | |
| He shot her a black look. | |
| 9. adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced. | |
| 10. adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded. | |
| 11. adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer. | |
| Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer. | |
| 12. adj. (board games, chess) 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' ac | |
| The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass. | |
| 13. adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white. | |
| Compare two Unicode symbols: , ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; , ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX | |
| 14. adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. | |
| After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance. | |
| 15. adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public. | |
| 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects. | |
| 16. adj. (Ireland, now pejorative) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic | |
| Originally "the Black North" meant west Ulster | |
| 17. adj. 1812, Edward Wakefield, "There is a district, comprehending Donegal, the interior of the county of Derry, and the western side of Tyrone, which is emphatically called by the people "the Black North," | |
| 18. adj. then Protestant east Ulster.1841 March 20 Catholic Herald (Bengal) Vol. 2 No. 1 p. 27 'Even in the "black North"—in " Protestant Ulster"—Catholicity is progessing at a rate that must strike terror in | |
| 19. adj. Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it has one or more features that is black or dark, especially in comparison to another species with the same base name. | |
| black birch, black locust, black rhino | |
| 20. n. The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed. | |
| (colour panel, 000) | |
| 21. n. A black dye or pigment. | |
| 22. n. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. | |
| 23. n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals. | |
| 24. n. (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person. | |
| 25. n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the) The black ball. | |
| 26. n. (baseball) The edge of home plate | |
| 27. n. (British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour. | |
| 28. n. (informal) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black). | |
| 29. n. (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces. | |
| At this point black makes a disastrous move. | |
| 30. n. Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. | |
| 31. n. (obsolete) A stain; a spot. | |
| 32. v. To make black, to blacken. | |
| 33. v. To apply blacking to something. | |
| 34. v. (British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute. | |
