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Blacking definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BLACK'ING, ppr. Making black.
BLACK'ING, n. A substance used for blacking shoes, variously made; any factitious matter for making things black.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear [syn: shoe polish, blacking]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1571 a substance (as a paste or polish) that is applied to an object to make it black

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any black paste or polish, esp. for shoes.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Black Black, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Blacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Blacking.] [See Black, a., and cf. Blacken.] 1. To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully. They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs. --Hakluyt. Sins which black thy soul. --J. Fletcher. 2. To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Blacking Black"ing, n. 1. Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves. 2. The act or process of making black.