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▪ I. bleck, n. Obs. exc. dial.
Also blek(e, blecke.
[The OE. blæc looks like the adj. blæc, black, used subst. If so, ME. blek(e must be unrepresented in OE., and correspond to ON. blek ink (Sw. bläck, Da. blæk ink), OTeut. type *blakjo(m, f. *blak- black.]
1. Black fluid substance; spec. ink (obs.); a preparation used by curriers and shoemakers for blacking leather (also called bletch, blatch, bleach) (obs.); black grease round an axle or other revolving part. north. dial.
[c970K. Eadgar Canons (Anc. Laws II. 244) We lærað þæt hi..habban blæc and bocfell to heora ᵹerædnessum. a1000ælfric Gloss. Wr.-Wülcker Voc. 164 Incaustum vel atramentum, blæc.] c1440Promp. Parv. 39 Bleke [1499 blecke], atramentum. 1483Cath. Angl. 34 Blek, attramen, attramentum. c1505Dunbar ‘This Nycht in my Sleip’ vii, ‘Fy,’ quod the Feynd, ‘thou [sowttar] sairis of blek, Go clenge the clene, and cum to me.’ 1570Levins Manip. 47 Blecke, bleche, atramentum. 1855Whitby Gloss., Bleck, the dirty-looking oil or grease at the axle of a cart-wheel. 1876in Mid. Yorksh. Gloss. 1877in Holderness Gloss., etc.
2. Soot or smut, a particle of soot. (Still Sc.)
c1590A. Hume Ep. G. Moncrief, The Censor is impropre to correck, That in himself has ony kinde of bleck.
3. a. A blackamoor. b. A blackguard. mod.Sc.
4. Comb., as † bleck-fat (= vat), blek-pot, a vessel for holding ‘bleck.’
1468Medulla Gram. in Cath. Angl. 34 Atramentarium, an ynkhorne or a blek pot. 1483Cath. Angl. 34 Blek potte, attramentorium. 1562Richmond. Wills (1853) 156 In a litill house, stocks of a bedde and bleckfatts.
▪ II. bleck, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 5 blekkyn, 5–6 blek. pa. tense 6 Sc. blekkit.
[App. f. blek bleck n.: but cf. the parallel bletch v., of which this may be the northern form, going back to an OE. *blęccan:—OTeut. *blakjan, f. *blako- black.]
1. trans. To make black; esp. to blacken with ink, soot, tar, or the like. Still in north. dial.
1382Wyclif Job xxx. 30 My skin is bleckid up on me. c1440Promp. Parv. 39 Blekkyn wythe bleke [1499 blackyn with blecke], atramento. 1570Levins Manip. 47 To blecke, bletch, nigrare. 1646Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 440 It was his comfort on his death-bed that he never blecked nor disfigured the well-favoured face of the Kirk of Scotland. Mod. Sc. How hae ye blekkit yeir face?
2. To enter or inscribe with ink; to write.
c1460Towneley Myst. 311 Thus told I youre tax, thus ar my bokys blekyt. c1570Leg. Bp. St. Andrews in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 340 Not all the paper of this towne, And blek[k]it baith vnder and abone, May had the half that he hes done.
3. fig. To blacken morally, to make or declare guilty; to defile. (Still dial.)
c1380Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 211 Boþe partis ben bleckid with þis synne. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. II. 715 Quhither or nocht he wes thairof to blek. 1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 139 Syn..that fylis and blekkis our saulis.
¶4. Here perhaps representing ON. blekkja ‘to impose upon, deceive,’ = OE. blęncan to blench.
1573Sege Edinb. Cast. in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 307 Sen ye are wairned, I wald not ye were blekkit. |