transitive. To make black, blacken.

transitive. To make black; esp. to blacken with ink, soot, tar, or the like. Still in northern dialect.

transitive (also intransitive with object understood). To make black or dark.

To black, v.

transitive. To cover or stain with pitch; also figurative.

transitive. To smear with blacking or other black substance.

to make as black as a collier.

transitive. To blacken or darken. Also, to clothe in ‘sables’. Now rare.

transitive. To blacken, make black.

To blacken, darken; = bleach, v.2

transitive. To make black.

transitive. To blacken, make black or dark. literal. Now rare.

transitive. To blacken, to make black (literal and figurative).

transitive. To make (furniture, etc.) look like ebony.