Ni‐gres″cent (?), a. [L. nigrescens, p. pr. of nigrescere to grow black, fr. niger black. See Negro.] Growing black; changing to a black color; approaching to blackness. Johnson.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.