black
— Adjective
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~ harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
black
— Adjective
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~ soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
American black bear
— Noun
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~ brown to black North American bear; smaller and less ferocious than the brown bear
animal black
— Noun
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~ black substance containing char in the form of carbonized bone; used as a black pigment
Asiatic black bear
— Noun
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~ bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia
Black
— Noun
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~ a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
black
— Noun
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~ total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
Black
— Noun
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~ popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
black
— Noun
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~ (board games) the darker pieces
Black
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~ British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
black
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~ black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
black
— Noun
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~ the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
black bean
— Noun
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~ black-seeded bean of South America; usually dried
black bear
— Noun
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~ bear with a black coat living in central and eastern Asia
black art
— Noun
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~ the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
black birch
— Noun
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~ birch of swamps and river bottoms throughout the eastern United States having reddish-brown bark
black archangel
— Noun
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~ ill-smelling European herb with rugose leaves and whorls of dark purple flowers
black bee
— Noun
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~ dark-colored ill-tempered honeybee supposedly of German origin
black belt
— Noun
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~ a black sash worn to show expert standards in the martial arts (judo or karate)
black bearberry
— Noun
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~ deciduous creeping shrub bright red in autumn having black or blue-black berries; alpine and circumpolar