Reverse Dictionary: BLACK, BLACKNESS

ADJECTIVES
1300 ► NERE black → obs.
1400 ► NEGRE → NEYGER black → obs.
1485 ► SABLE black → chiefly poetical and rhetorical usage
1602 ► STYGIAN black as the river Styx; dark or gloomy as the region of the Styx
1607 ► EBON black, dark, sombre; of the colour of ebony → obs.
1634 ► FULIGINATED sooty or dull black in colour → obs.
1656 ► INTERNIGRANT having black interlaced among other colours → obs.
1710 ► BLACK AS ONE’S HAT absolutely black
1772 ► NIGRICANT black
1774 ► BLACK AS THE DEVIL’S ARSE as black as can be; pitch-black → US sl.
1809 ► BLACK AS OLD NICK very black → Amer. dial.
1817 ► BLACK AS THE ACE OF SPADES very black or dark; of a person: having very dark skin → 1817 colloq., now usually offensive
1826 ► BLACK AS THE CROOK very black (crook = a hook in a chimney for hanging a pot or kettle on) → Sc.
1830 ► ATROUS very black; jet-black → obs.
1901 ► BLACKER THAN TOBY’S HEEL very black → Amer. dial.
1901 ► RAVEN-DARK black → Amer. dial.
1901 ► THUNDER-BLACK very black; dark with anger, angry
1902 ► BLACK AS NEWGATE very black → sl. (Bk.)
1911 ► BLECK black → Sc. (Bk.)
1914 ► BLACK AS SIP → BLACK AS ZIP extremely black → Amer. dial.
1915 ► SALT AND PEPPER black and white → US sl.
1938 ► ELEELE black; dark → Hawaii
1952 ► BLACK AS THE EARL OF HELL very black → Amer. dial.
1958 ► BLACK AS TOBEY’S BEHIND very black → Amer. dial.
1966 ► BLACK AS TAR very black → Amer. dial.
1976 ► BLACK AS A COAL-MINER’S ASSHOLE AT MIDNIGHT utterly black → Amer. sl.
1991 ► DARK-GREEN black → US, Vietnam war usage
1997 ► BLACK AS TOBY’S HILL very black → Amer. dial.
2009 ► DIRTIER THAN TOBY’S ASS very black

NOUNS
1374 ► SABLE the colour black; black clothing, also, esp. as a symbol of mourning
1547 ► NIGREDITY blackness → obs.
1662 ► FULIGINOSITY a being sooty; sooty matter; also, blackness, darkness

VERBS
1425 ► MURK to blacken, to smudge, to besmirch; to make dark or obscure
1610 ► SABLE to blacken or darken → chiefly poetic usage
1611 ► SABLEIZE to make black → obs.
1611 ► SMEECH to blacken, to make dirty → obs.
1616 ► SMUTCH to blacken, to make dirty, to smudge
1626 ► SMITCH to blacken, esp. with smoke; to scorch; to make dirty; to mark → chiefly Eng. dial.