单词 | lamp-black |
释义 | lamp-blackn. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > blackening agent > [noun] > pigment blackOE lamp-black1598 charcoal-black1622 ivory-black1634 blue-black1665 bone black1665 Indian ink1665 India ink1700 smoke-black1712 China-ink1782 Frankfort black1823 almond black1835 Spanish black1839 gas black1841 abaiser1849 peach black1852 vine-black1860 carbon black1872 drop-black1879 aspergillin1891 1598 R. Haydocke tr. G. P. Lomazzo Tracte Artes Paintinge iii. iv. 99 The shels of almondes burnt, ball blacke, Lampe-blacke. 1612 H. Peacham Gentlemans Exercise i. 76 The making of ordinary lamp blacke. Take a torch or linke, and hold it vnder the bottome of a latten basen, and as it groweth to be furd and blacke within, strike it with a feather into some shell or other, and grind it with gumme water. 1723 J. Smith Painting in Oyl (ed. 5) 29 Lam-black, a Colour of so greasy a nature. 1772 Van Haake in Abridg. Specif. Ship Building (1862) 23 [To the deposit on the interior of a vessel held over the cylinder in which the mineral is heated so as to receive the smoke] I give the name of lamp black. 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 38 The best substance for these disks is lamp-black, such as is produced by the burning of any of the lighter hydrocarbons. Compounds attributive, as in lamp-black-ink; lamp-black furnace n. an apparatus for making lamp-black. ΚΠ 1799 tr. Laboratory (ed. 6) II. ii. 37 Draw with the lamp-black-ink lines from one side to the other. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lamp-blackv. transitive. To paint, smear, or coat with lampblack. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > make black [verb (transitive)] > with lampblack lamp-black1676 1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. i The Clerks Ink is scarce off of your fingers, you that newly come from Lamblacking the Judges shooes, and are not fit to wipe mine! a1704 T. Brown Declam. Praise Poverty (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1730) I. 98 A..scoundrel who knows no pleasure beyond..lampblacking signs. Derivatives lamp-ˈblacked adj. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > black or blackness > making or becoming black > [adjective] > blackened > with lamp-black lamp-blacked1864 1864 Morning Star 25 May 4 The lamp-blacked nigger melodists. 1889 London, Edinb., & Dublin Philos. Mag. 5th Ser. 27 2 A thickly lampblacked thermometric apparatus. 1899 T. Watts-Dunton Aylwin (1900) 132/2 Piles of lamp~blacked coffins. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598v.1676 |
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