Dictionary entry

Black (4)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Black, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Blacked; p. pr. & vb. n.Blacking.] [See Black, a., and cf. Blacken.]

1. 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.

Hakluyt.

Sins which black thy soul.

J. Fletcher.

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