A black ink, dye, or pigment. Any black substance, esp. one used for blacking; any of various black pigments, paints, dyes, or varnishes used esp. by…

A pigment consisting of almost pure carbon in a state of fine division; made by collecting the soot produced by burning oil or (now usually) gas.

a pigment obtained from charcoal.

A fine soft black pigment, obtained by calcining ivory in a closed vessel; sometimes loosely applied to bone-black.

A pigment of this colour. Also: blue-black colour; a shade or tint of this.

a black porous substance produced by the carbonization of bones, consisting of a mixture of bone ash and charcoal and used as a decolorizing and…

A solid black pigment consisting of carbon particles mixed with gum; a deep black ink made from this, used esp. in drawing and technical…

= Indian ink, n.

A form of lamp-black obtained by the combustion of resinous materials.

= Indian ink, n. a black pigment sold in bars and cakes, consisting generally of lamp-black and size (see also quots.).

a fine black pigment used in copperplate engraving.

(a) n. a black pigment made from charred almond shells (cf. peach black n. at peach, n.1 adj.compounds 2) (now rare); (b) adj. of a deep lustrous…

(see quots.).

= carbon black, n.

A soft black pigment; ivory black, bone black.

a black pigment made from calcined peach stones.

(see quot.).

A very fine, amorphous, carbon powder used as a pigment and filler, typically formed by the incomplete burning of hydrocarbons; = lamp-black, n.…

a superior quality of bone-black ground in water, formed into drops, and dried.

A black pigment found in the spores of various species of Aspergillus.