blacks

plural of black

Noun

  1. plural of black
  2. A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
  3. Black garments, etc.
    • Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. - 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
    • that was the full time they vsed to were blackes for the death of their fathers - 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes:

Verb

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of black