421; swartliness†, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro &c
420.
nigrification†, infuscation†.
jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven,
crow.
[derogatory terms for black-skinned people] negro, blackamoor, man
of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, nigger [U.S.]; coon
[U.S.], sambo.
[Pigments] lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink,
printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink.
V. be black &c adj.; render black &c adj.. blacken, infuscate†,
denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch†; smirch; darken &c 421.
black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon,
atramentous†, jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous†, pitchy, sooty,
swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the
deepest dye.
black as jet &c n., black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a
tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight;
nocturnal &c (dark) 421; nigrescent†; gray &c 432; obscure &c 421.
Adv. in mourning.