–adjective

1.	lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.

2.	characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night.

3.	(sometimes initial capital letter) a. pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia. b. African-American.

4.	soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour.

5.	gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook.

6.	deliberately; harmful; inexcusable: a black lie.

7.	boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words; black looks.

8.	(of coffee or tea) without milk or cream.

9.	without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.

10.	indicating censure, disgrace, or liability 166 to punishment: a black mark on one's record.

11.	marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday.

12.	wearin be0 g black or dark clothing or armor: the black prince.

13.	based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy; black humor.

14.	(of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, sub-standard, potentially dangerous, etc.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports.

15.	illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes.

16.	showing a profit; not showing any losses: the first black quarter in two years.

17.	deliberately false or intentionally misleading: black propaganda.

18.	British. boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union.

19.	(of steel) in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished.

–noun

20.	the color at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to white, absorbing all light incident upon it. Compare white (def. 19).

21.	(sometimes initial capital letter) a. a member of any of various dark-skinned peoples, esp. those of Africa, Oceania, and Australia. b. African-American.

22.	black clothing, esp. as a sign of mourning: He wore black at the funeral.

23.	Chess, Checkers. the dark-colored men or pieces o 3e8 r squares.

24.	black pigment: lamp black.

25.	Slang. black beauty.

26.	a horse or other animal that is entirely black.

–verb (used with object)

27.	to make black; put black on; blacken.

28.	British. to boycott or ban.

29.	to polish (shoes, boots ed2 , etc.) with blacking.

–verb (used without object)

30.	to become black; take on a black color; blacken.

–adverb

31.	(of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream.

—Verb phrase

32.

black out, a. to lose consciousness: He blacked out at the sight of blood. b. to erase, obliterate, or suppress: News reports were blacked out. c. to forget everything relating to a particular event, person, etc.: When it came to his war experiences he blacked out completely. d. Theater. to extinguish all of the stage lights. e. to make or become inoperable: to black out the radio broadcasts from the U.S. f. Military. to obscure by concealing all light in defense against air raids. g. Radio and Television. to impose a broadcast blackout on (an area). h. to withdraw or cancel (a special fare, sale, discount, etc.) for a designated period: The special air fare discount will be blacked out by the airlines over the holiday weekend.

—Idioms

33.	black and white, a. print or writing: I want that agreement in black and white. b. a monochromatic picture done with black and white only. c. a chocolate soda containing vanilla ice cream.

34.	black or white, completely either one way or another, without any intermediate state.

35.	in the black, operating at a profit or being out of debt (opposed to in the red ): New production methods put the company in the black.

–noun

1.	any of various portable devices for raising or lifting heavy objects short heights, using various mechanical, pneumatic, or hydraulic methods.

2.	Also called knave. Cards. a playing card bearing the picture of a soldier or servant.

3.	Electricity. a connecting device in an electrical circuit designed for the insertion of a plug.

4.	(initial capital letter) Informal. fellow; buddy; man (usually used in addressing a stranger): Hey, Jack, which way to Jersey?

5.

Also called jackstone. Games. a. one of a set of small metal objects having six prongs, used in the game of jacks. b. one of any other set of objects, as pebbles, stones, etc., used in the game of jacks. c. jacks, (used with a singular verb) a children's game in which small metal objects, stones, pebbles, or the like, are tossed, caught, and moved on the ground in a number of prescribed ways, usually while bouncing a rubber ball.

6.	any of several carangid fishes, esp. of the genus Caranx, as C. hippos (crevalle jack or jack crevalle), of the western Atlantic Ocean.

7.	Slang. money: He won a lot of jack at the races.

8.	Slang: Vulgar.. jack shit.

9.	Nautical. a. a small flag flown at the jack staff of a ship, bearing a distinctive design usually symbolizing the nationality of the vessel. b. Also called jack crosstree. either of a pair of crosstrees at the head of a topgallant mast, used to hold royal shrouds away from the mast.

10.	(initial capital letter) a sailor.

11.	a lumberjack.

12.	applejack.

13.	jack rabbit.

14.	a jackass.

15.	jacklight.

16.	a device for turning a spit.

17.	a small wooden rod in the mechanism of a harpsichord, spinet, or virginal that rises when the key is depressed and causes the attached plectrum to strike the string.

18.	Lawn Bowling. a small, usually white bowl or ball used as a mark for the bowlers to aim at.

19.	Also called clock jack. Horology. a mechanical figure that strikes a clock bell.

20.	a premigratory young male salmon.

21.	Theater. brace jack.

22.	Falconry. the male of a kestrel, hobby, or esp. of a merlin.

–verb (used with object) 3e8

23.	to lift or move (something) with or as if with a jack (usually fol. by up): to jack a car up to change a flat tire.

24.	Informal. to increase, raise, or accelerate (prices, wages, speed, etc.) (usually fol. by up).

25.	Informal. to boost the morale of; encourage (usually fol. by up).

26.	to jacklight.

–verb (used without object) to jacklight.

27.

–adjective

28.	Carpentry. having a height or length less than that of most of the others in a structure; cripple: jack d8c rafter; jack truss.

—Verb phrase

29.	jack off, Slang: Vulgar. to masturbate.

—Idiom

30.	every man jack, everyone without exception: They presented a formidable opposition, every man jack of them.