Blacking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BLACKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make (something) black, especially with polish
• refuse to handle (goods), undertake (work), or have dealings with (a person or business) as a way of taking industrial action
• make (one's face and other visible parts) black with polish or make-up so as not to be seen at night or to play the role of a black person in a play or film
NOUN:
• a black shoe polish
• black colour or pigment
• black clothes or material, typically worn as a sign of mourning
• darkness, especially of night or an overcast sky
• the player of the black pieces in chess or draughts
• a black thing, in particular the black ball in snooker.
• a member of a dark-skinned people, especially one of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry
• the situation of not owing money to a bank or of making a profit in a business operation
• blackcurrant cordial
• preparation for giving a black finish to shoes, metals, etc
• Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
• The act or process of making black.
• a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear
ADJECTIVE:
• of the very darkest colour owing to the absence of or complete absorption of light; the opposite of white
• (of the sky or night) completely dark owing to the sun, moon, or stars not being visible
• deeply stained with dirt
• (of a plant or animal) dark in colour as distinguished from a lighter variety
• (of coffee or tea) served without milk
• of or denoting the suits spades and clubs in a pack of cards.
• (of a ski run) of the highest level of difficulty, as indicated by black markers positioned along it.
• belonging to or denoting any human group having dark-coloured skin, especially of African or Australian Aboriginal ancestry
• relating to black people
• characterized by tragic or disastrous events; causing despair or pessimism
• (of humour) presenting tragic or harrowing situations in comic terms
• full of anger or hatred
• very evil or wicked
• denoting a covert military procedure
• (of goods or work) not to be handled or undertaken by trade union members, especially so as to express support for an industrial dispute elsewhere
• (of a person's state of mind) full of gloom or misery; very depressed
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to make black

Words related to BLACKING

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Words that contain BLACKING

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How to use BLACKING in a sentence

• The blacking should be kept corked up, except when in use, and applied to the brush with a sponge tied to a stick, which, when put away, rests in a notch cut in the cork.
• At eleven years of age the boy was taken out of school and went to work in the cellar of a blacking factory.
• I was blacking my boots one day, and I left the bottle of black polish on a low bench.
• Hunt is not more famous for blacking than some of the Fathers.
• The task had been appreciably delayed by Frank, the dog, who, with a quaint relish for shoe blacking, had licked a superb polish from one shoe while the other was under treatment.
• There was Dandy Green, the Lincolnshire man from Beevor, that used to wear no end of boots and spend pounds and pounds in blacking.
• Unfortunately I had forgotten to lock my door, and in walked Cousin Charley with a quart bottle of liquid blacking, which he prepared to empty on my devoted head.
• One might have thought that Tom would have been satisfied with merely blacking his face, and leaving to chance the identification of the negro who might be apprehended.
• I was in Hot Springs blacking boots when my mother died.
• One man in particular is busily engaged in selling his store of blacking in the auction style, in a manner that would do credit to a real Down-caster.
• On this there is placed a vessel containing the blacking, and into which dips a copper cylinder having a grooved surface.
• Brush away! brush away! till I see my own pretty face in the blacking.
• At first, when he began his daily toil at the blacking business, some poor dregs of family life were left to the child.
• But it was the sudden blacking out of the scene which had wrought on the nerves.
• Among the other products are lasts, blacking, paper and wooden packing boxes, nails and spikes, and shoe fittings and tools.
• A well-known financier began by blacking a pair of boots.
• The society fixes the price of blacking a pair of boots or shoes at ten cents, and severely punishes those who work for a less sum.
• In many houses there are still the offensive duties of filling lamps and blacking boots to be done.
• He had brushes and blacking, and he blacked and he brushed and breathed alternately, undoing continually with his breath or his filthy hand what he had done with his brush.
• Guests are supplied with all facilities for blacking their own boots, and are made at home in every way.
• Father made a fortune in blacking, so daresay he recollects his grandfather.
• It is imprudent to touch blacking in a dress-shirt, so Denry had to undo the past and begin again.
• The man who groomed the Georgian also ploughed the flowerbeds, broke the windows in cleaning them, and put blacking on brown boots.
• With this I bought shoe blacking and a shoe brush and spent my Saturdays blacking boots for travelers at the depot and the hotel.
• They brought me fish, which were capital because I traded them for shoe blacking with which I earned enough money to buy ten times more fish than I had caught.
• It was found useful as an ingredient of blacking and varnish.
• As for my neighbor, the unhappy possessor of the bottles of blacking, the pictures by unknown masters, and the rest of it, he won, and then rashly presumed on his good fortune.

Similar words containing BLACK without suffix ing

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