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▪ I. blacking, vbl. n.|ˈblækɪŋ|
[f. black v.]
1. a. The action of making black by applying some substance.
1609Douland Ornithop. Microl. 45 The blacking of the Notes. 1823J. Badcock Dom. Amusem. 49 This blacking may be effected with the smoke of a lamp.
b. blacking-out: see black v. 3 b and 3 c.
1905Academy 27 May 562/1 Maternal censorship is rigid, the Russian blacking-out system not more so. 1919Illustr. London News 27 Sept. 482 After the war-years.., the great ‘blacking-out’ to deceive enemy aircraft, London is herself again.
c. blacking-out: see black v. 6.
1932Flight 1 Apr. 272/1 With the speed of modern fighters when on the dive, it might happen that the fighter pilots would experience ‘blacking out’ at the critical moment of the turn and zoom. 1933Jrnl. R. Aeronaut. Soc. XXXVII. 397 The effect most frequently noticed is the well-known phenomenon of ‘blacking-out’, wherein the subject without losing consciousness becomes momentarily blind.
†2. The unconsumed carbon of flame; ‘lamp-black.’ Obs.
1594Plat Jewell-ho. iii. 72 The blacking of a Lampe tempered with oyle.
†3.
a. Any preparation used for making black, as ‘shoemakers' black,’ which is a stain used to blacken the originally brown leather. Obs.
1571Buchanan's Detect. Mary in H. Campbell Love-lett. Mary Q. Scots (1824) 127 As it were washed with sowters blacking. 1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong., Encre, ou noire peincture..blacking. 1603–4Act 1 Jas. I, xx. §2 It shall..be lawfull..for any of the Companie of Plaisterers..to lay and use Whitinge, Blacking, Red Leade. 1611Cotgr., Noir, blacke colour; blacking.
b. spec. A preparation for giving a shining black surface to boots and shoes.
1598Florio, Folligine, blacking for shooes. 1712Steele Spect. No. 461 ⁋13 The ingenious Authors of Blacking for Shoes, Powder for colouring the Hair. 1814Moore Parod. Let. vi. 94, Like the vendor of Best Patent Blacking.
c. attrib., as in blacking ball, blacking bottle, blacking brush, blacking manufacturer, etc.; blacking leather, leather which is to be blacked, as distinct from patent leather.
1753Scots Mag. Oct. 490/2 My pumps were varnished..with the new German blacking ball. 1837Dickens O. Twist (1838) I. v. 78 His 'prentice..sent 'em some medicine in a blacking-bottle. 1850― Dav. Copp. xxvii. 283 His blacking-brushes and blacking were among his books. c1860H. Stuart Seaman's Catech. 81 Scrubbing brush, and blacking brushes. 1893Yeats Celtic Twilight 184 A fiddle made apparently of an old blacking-box. 1896Daily News 2 July 8/7 High glacé boots have patent leather goloshes, and others have plain ‘blacking’ leather.
▪ II. † ˈblacking, n. dial.
A black pudding.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 159 Thus shall we sort out eternity..as the Darbyshire huswife does her puddings, when she makes whitings and blackings and liverings. |
