Black ink, dye, or pigment; blacking.

Black fluid substance; spec. ink (obsolete); a preparation used by curriers and shoemakers for blacking leather (also called bletch, blatch, bleach)…

Any substance used for blacking; e.g. ink, soot, lamp-black, and esp. shoemakers' or curriers' black used for leather.

(Shoemakers') blacking.

A black ink, dye, or pigment. Any of various preparations used by shoemakers, tanners, curriers, etc., for dyeing or staining leather black. Cf. bla…

Shoemaker's blacking.

A preparation for making something black. Now rare (chiefly English regional (Lancashire)).

? The material of ‘links’ used as blacking.

Something that blackens.

A liquid preparation used for blackening something.

(a) = blacking, n.1 2b; (b) the blacking and polishing of shoes.

cork that has been burnt so that it can be used for blackening the face, hands, etc.; frequently attributive, as burnt-cork artist, a performer in…