lampblack
lampblack is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- atramentous
- black
- blackamoor
- blacken
- blackness
- blot
- blotch
- buck
- charcoal
- chiaroscuro
- coal
- coal-black
- color
- coon
- crow
- dark
- darken
- darkness
- denigrate
- derogatory
- dingy
- dusky
- dye
- ebon
- ebony
- for
- fuliginous
- gray
- hat
- infuscate
- infuscation
- ink
- inky
- ivory
- jet
- jet-black
- jetty
- light
- lividity
- low
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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