Black colour or hue; (as a count noun) a particular variety of black.

The colour black; black clothing, also, esp. as a symbol of mourning. poetic and rhetorical.

Esp. relating to things: the quality or state of being black (in various senses).

= blackness, n. 1.

Blackness.

Blackness, esp. of the skin. Also: blackening.

A colour used in glass-painting. Obsolete. rare.

Blackness; †mournfulness, gloom.