单词 | blacking |
释义 | blackingn.1 1. The action of making black by the application of some substance; (also) the action or an act of turning black or darkening. Cf. blackening n. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [noun] > making black blacking?a1425 blackeningc1475 nigrefaction1658 nigrification1755 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 123v For vnwise blackyngez of herez [?c1425 Paris makynges blake] with comoun medicynez..many wymmen come in to perilez. 1452–4 in J. A. Kingdon Arch. Worshipful Company of Grocers (1886) II. 342 (MED) For..blakkynge of j peyr henges. a1550 ( G. Ripley Compend of Alchemy (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 55v (MED) Drynes procedeth as whitith the matter, Lyke as in blackyng moisture dothe hyme shew By collor variant. 1560 W. Ward tr. G. Ruscelli 2nd Pt. Secretes Alexis of Piemont 81 Some oile of Bengewine..helpeth likewise to the blacking of the heares, and is of good sauour. 1609 J. Dowland tr. A. Ornithoparchus Micrologus 45 The blacking of the Notes. 1683 W. Penn Let. Free Soc. Traders 6 Their Mourning is blacking of their faces, which they continue for a year. 1731 M. Draper Spend-thrift iv. xi. 49 In blacking of shoes we spend all the Day, And Glimming a-Night, to shew you your way. 1784 Wit's Mag. 1 445/2 We proceeded to blacking of faces—a very interesting part of the game. 1823 J. Badcock Domest. Amusem. 49 This blacking may be effected with the smoke of a lamp. 1880 Trans. Asiatic Soc. Japan 8 282 The blacking of teeth in Japan was as purely ornamental..as the blackening of our own boots. 1915 Yale Rev. July 759 Pietro Damiano wished to earn his spaghetti..by the blacking of boots. 1979 Folk Music Jrnl. 3 446 The blacking of their faces with coal dust or soot. 2001 Premiere Nov. 107/3 Some of the same holy ceremonies he witnesses as a kid, including a ‘blacking’, performed on Beach after he is exposed to the horrors of death. 2. a. A preparation for making something black. Now rare (chiefly English regional (Lancashire)). ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > blackening agent > [noun] blatchOE bleckc1440 bleacha1500 bleaching?1518 black1558 bletch1570 blacking?1571 linka1616 denigrator1658 black wash1684 shoe-blacking1735 burnt corkc1800 ?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Fjv As it weir washed with sowters blacking. 1580 C. Hollyband Treasurie French Tong Encre, ou noire peincture..blacking. 1603–4 Act 1 James I c. 20 §2 It shall..be lawfull..for any of the Companie of Plaisterers..to lay and use Whitinge, Blacking, Red Leade. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Noir, blacke colour; blacking. 1828 Casket 10 Feb. 7/2 The composision [sic] is..the best blacking for every kind of harness. 1918 A. G. Empey First Call xxx. 272 Perhaps you will ask where blacking can be obtained in a trench. 1985 K. Howarth Sounds Gradely Blacking, a blacking agent for the iron parts of a fireplace. b. spec. A preparation for giving a shining black surface to boots and shoes; a shoe polish. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > preparation for blacking1598 blacking ball1740 boot-blacking1866 Shinola1902 nugget1903 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Folligine, blacking for shooes. 1612 J. Webster White Divel iii. iii. 7 Shoos that stinke of blacking. 1648 Last Will Tom Fairfax 2 To see great Alexander cobling shoes, Charlemaine sell blacking,..and Pepin, selling apples in a cart. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 461. ⁋13 The ingenious Authors of Blacking for Shoes, Powder for colouring the Hair. 1760 Invoice 28 Sept. in G. Washington Papers (1988) VI. 461 12 rolls best Shoe Blacking. 1814 T. Moore Parod. Let. vi. 94 Like the vendor of Best Patent Blacking. 1885 T. Morley Reminisc. I. lxiii. 419 No other damage than the entire loss of blacking from the boots. 1924 Pop. Mech. Feb. 277/1 Dauber for liquid blacking. 1955 C. S. Lewis Surprised by Joy vi. 96 What takes the time is waiting in the queue of other fags in the ‘boot-hole’ to get your turn at the brushes and blacking. 2004 Sunday Life (Belfast) (Nexis) 14 Mar. Few knew simple things, like how to..shine a pair of shoes with brush and blacking. c. Founding. A carbonaceous material such as graphite or powdered coal, used as a facing (facing n. 9) to improve the finish of castings. ΚΠ 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (page following plate 74) When dried, this dome must be painted over with a blacking made of charcoal ground up with water. 1877 Trans. Soc. Engin. 1876 168 Mr. Hall had sent him some peat charcoal, to be tried as a blacking for iron founding. At that time the blacking used in his foundry was made from oak. 1960 J. H. Gribbin Industr. Res. Lab. U.S. 42/1 Research on: Graphite, foundry facing (plumbago, blacking), grinding processes. 3. A fine carbon powder left when oil, paraffin, or other hydrocarbons are incompletely burned; = carbon black n., lamp-black n. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > products of burning > [noun] > soot > specific flint-soot1577 blacking1594 gas carbon1842 stokers1899 1594 H. Plat Jewell House 72 The blacking of a Lampe tempered with oyle. 1650 Act for Redempt. of Captives 7 Blacking or Lamp-blacke the hundred weight, cont. 112. pound. 1770 Surv. Brit. Customs 90 Blacking, or Lamp-black, the Cwt. 1812 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs ii. 41 (heading) Blacking, or lamp black. 1905 Foundry May 104/1 The molds are smoked by..passing a pot of burning resin under them. The fine carbon from the resin smoke serves as a blacking or facing. Compounds C1. General attributive (in senses 1 and 2), as blacking bottle, blacking brush, blacking manufacturer, blacking pot, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > vessel > flask, flagon, or bottle > [noun] > bottle > other specific types of bottle blacking bottle1838 long neck1840 bocal1847 Winchester1862 pinch bottle1916 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > implement for shoe cloutc1425 shoe-rag1594 shoe-brush1740 blacking brush1850 boot-sponge1863 a1500 in Notes & Queries (1980) Feb. 22/1 (MED) He bequethyd hys dowtyre Anne Hys blackyng pot, hys blackyng panne. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 165 They..delight to have their boots and shoos shine with blacking stuffe. 1799 Repertory of Arts 10 83 The lamp-black is taken out of the blacking-house every six or eight days. 1820 Trial of Crew Brig William 65 He saw the mate mark some [bales] with blacking out of the blacking-pot belonging to the William. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. v. 78 His 'prentice..sent 'em some medicine in a blacking-bottle. 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xxvii. 283 His blacking-brushes and blacking were among his books. 1893 W. B. Yeats Celtic Twilight 184 A fiddle made apparently of an old blacking-box. 1920 R. Moldenke Foundry Blackings 14 The foundryman should give the blacking manufacturer every information possible in regard to the nature of his work. c1924 N. Coward We must All be Kind to Aunt Jessie in B. Day N. Coward: Compl. Lyrics (1998) 84/1 Hurl the blacking brush at her; It's things like this that trample on her pride. 2004 Derby Evening Tel. (Nexis) 22 Aug. 4 During excavations..products were brought to the surface, including ink and blacking bottles. C2. blacking tub n. now rare ΚΠ ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 1 He determined in the aboundance of his teares, that made a ful tide in his blacking tubbe. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 315 He first joults the bottom of the Blacking Tub three or four times against the ground. 1861 Birmingham Daily Post 4 Sept. 4/3 The bar [of copper]..was placed in the blacking tub, and he gave information to the police. 1930 Iron & Steel Industry 3 275/2 An adjunct of the core department [sc. in a foundry]..was a blacking tub fitted with rotary paddles which kept the mixture at uniform consistency. C3. blacking ball n. a moulded ball of a preparation used for blacking; cf. blackball n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning shoes > [noun] > preparation for blacking1598 blacking ball1740 boot-blacking1866 Shinola1902 nugget1903 1740 E. Purefoy Let. 31 Jan. in G. Eland Purefoy Lett. (1931) I. viii. 203 Buy for my son two shoe brushes, to brush the shoes with the blacking ball. 1828 Casket 10 Feb. 7/2 The composision [sic] is sometimes run into moulds, and sold under the name of blacking-balls. 1979 P. O'Brian Fortune of War vii. 234 We plied our needles and our blacking-balls. 2000 B. Cornwell Sharpe's Triumph (new ed.) iv. 98 He tipped out the contents of his pack. There were two spare shirts, his spare foot cloths, a blacking ball, a brush [etc.]. blacking leather n. now rare leather which is blacked, as opposed to patent leather. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather finished in specific way red leather1418 black work1587 frieze-leather1594 shagreen1677 chagrin1678 wax-leather1711 patent leather1797 satin leather1802 japanned leather1851 Peau d'Espagne1855 grain-leather1858 suede1878 pebble leather1880 suede leather1882 ooze leather1888 blacking leather1895 grain1895 patent1902 ooze1916 1895 G. M. Kelson Salmon Fly Announcements p. ii (advt.) Blacking Leather Golosh, Hand Sewn, 25/9. 1907 Times 23 Apr. 11/6 Many people who have..suffered while wearing glacé-kid or box-calf boots have returned to boots of the simple old-fashioned blacking leather. 1923 E. C. Mayne in E. J. O'Brien & J. Cournos Best Brit. Short Stories 212 Fabric gloves of London grey, and sober shoes of blacking-leather..completed an effect, which clearly was intentional. blacking man n. now historical (a) a man who sells or manufactures blacking for shoes; (b) a street trader who polishes shoes with blacking. ΚΠ 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love ii. v. sig. E3v Beare-wards, & Blackingmen. Corne-cutters, and Carmen. Sellers of marking stones. 1612 W. Turner Turners Dish Lenten Stuffe (single sheet) i Buy blacke, saith the blacking man. 1819 Metropolis (ed. 2) III. 153 As to the blacking-man making a fortune,..'tis all fair; he can make a shining character of his customer, in a minute. 1888 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 25 Jan. 5/1 The great English blacking-man sends his wares abroad. 2005 A. Boden Thomas Tomkins v. 53 To this general hubbub must be added the tuneful but competing street cries of an army of hawkers: fish-wives, costermongers, blacking men, [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † blackingn.2 English regional (Derbyshire). Obsolete. rare. A black pudding. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > sausage > [noun] > types of sausage franchemyle1381 herbelade?c1390 haggisc1400 black puddinga1450 blood puddingc1450 bloodinga1500 liveringa1500 haggis pudding1545 white pudding1578 swine's pudding1579 hog's pudding1583 Bolognian sausage1596 bloodling1598 andouille1605 andouillet1611 cervelat1613 mortadella1613 polony1654 blacking1674 hacking1674 whiting1674 Oxford sausagec1700 saucisson1772 German sausage1773 saveloy1784 blood sausage1799 white hawse1819 liver sausage1820 black pot1825 chipolata1830 Bologna sausage1833 butifarra1836 mettwurst1836 Cambridge sausage1840 boudin1845 chorizo1846 German1847 liverwurst1852 salami1852 station-Jack1853 leberwurst1855 wurst1855 blutwurst1856 bag of mystery1864 Vienna sausage1865 summer sausage1874 wienerwurst1875 mealy pudding1880 whitepot1880 wiener1880 erbswurst1885 pepperoni1888 mystery bag1889 red-hot1890 weenie1891 hot dog1892 frankfurter1894 sav?1894 Coney Island1895 coney1902 garlic sausage1905 boloney1907 kishke1907 drisheen1910 bratwurst1911 banger1919 cocktail sausage1927 boerewors1930 soy sausage1933 thuringer1933 frank1936 fish sausage1937 knackwurst1939 foot-long1941 starver1941 soya sausage1943 soysage1943 soya link1944 brat1949 Vienna1952 kielbasa1953 Coney dog1954 tube steak1963 Weisswurst1963 Cumberland sausage1966 merguez1966 tripe sausage1966 schinkenwurst1967 boerie1981 'nduja1996 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 159 Thus shall we sort out eternity..as the Darbyshire huswife does her puddings, when she makes whitings and blackings and liverings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1?a1425n.21674 |
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