Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Blacks"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Blacks \Blacks\, n. pl.
1. The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing,
prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue
of the wine press.
2. Soot flying in the air. [Eng.]
3. Black garments, etc. See {Black}, n., 4.
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