Hypertext Webster Gateway: "blacked"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
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