Definition of blacks

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Blacks (n. pl.) The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press..

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Blacks :: Blacks (n. pl.) Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4..
Smith :: Smith (n.) One who forges with the hammer; one who works in metals; as, a blacksmith, goldsmith, silversmith, and the like..
Hardy :: Hardy (n.) A blacksmith's fuller or chisel, having a square shank for insertion into a square hole in an anvil, called the hardy hole..
Smithy :: Smithy (n.) The workshop of a smith, esp. a blacksmith; a smithery; a stithy..
Appropriation :: Appropriation (n.) The severing or sequestering of a benefice to the perpetual use of a spiritual corporation. Blackstone.
Battering-ram :: Battering-ram (n.) A blacksmith's hammer, suspended, and worked horizontally..
Blacksmith :: Blacksmith (n.) A smith who works in iron with a forge, and makes iron utensils, horseshoes, etc..
Blacksalter :: Blacksalter (n.) One who makes crude potash, or black salts..
Blacks :: Blacks (n. pl.) Soot flying in the air.
Pritchel :: Pritchel (n.) A tool employed by blacksmiths for punching or enlarging the nail holes in a horseshoe.
Blackwork :: Blackwork (n.) Work wrought by blacksmiths; -- so called in distinction from that wrought by whitesmiths.
Boots :: Boots (n.) A servant at a hotel or elsewhere, who cleans and blacks the boots and shoes..
Blacksmith :: Blacksmith (n.) A fish of the Pacific coast (Chromis, / Heliastes, punctipinnis), of a blackish color..
Surcharge :: Surcharge (v. t.) To overstock; especially, to put more cattle into, as a common, than the person has a right to do, or more than the herbage will sustain. Blackstone..
Stake :: Stake (v. t.) A small anvil usually furnished with a tang to enter a hole in a bench top, -- used by tinsmiths, blacksmiths, etc., for light work, punching upon, etc..
Black Snake :: Black snake (n.) Alt. of Blacksnak.
Striker :: Striker (n.) One who, or that which, strikes; specifically, a blacksmith's helper who wields the sledge..
Bootblack :: Bootblack (n.) One who blacks boots.
Swage :: Swage (n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge..
Blacksnake :: Blacksnake (n.) A snake of a black color, of which two species are common in the United States, the Bascanium constrictor, or racer, sometimes six feet long, and the Scotophis Alleghaniensis, seven or eight feet long..
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