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English → English (gcide) Definition: Berlin black Berlin \Ber"lin\, n. [The capital of Prussia] 1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th century, at Berlin. [1913 Webster] 2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called also Berlin wool. [1913 Webster] Berlin black, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware. --Ure. Berlin blue, Prussian blue. --Ure. Berlin green, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green dye, and similar to Prussian blue. Berlin iron, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from which figures and other delicate articles are manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in imitation of bronze. Berlin shop, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and the materials for such work. Berlin work, worsted embroidery. [1913 Webster] Black \Black\, n. 1. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. [1913 Webster] Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. A black pigment or dye. [1913 Webster] 3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races. [1913 Webster] 4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. [1913 Webster] Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. --Bacon. [1913 Webster] That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers. --Sir T. North. [1913 Webster] 5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. [1913 Webster] The black or sight of the eye. --Sir K. Digby. [1913 Webster] 6. A stain; a spot; a smooch. [1913 Webster] Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust. --Rowley. [1913 Webster] Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white. Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color. Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing. Berlin black. See under Berlin. [1913 Webster]