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noun
- A high ranking official in the Catholic church who governs a diocese, or a similar official in other denominations and religions.
- (context, Chess) A piece that may be moved only diagonally.
- (slang) penis (see bash the bishop).
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noun
- (colour) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light.
- <table><tr><td height="25">black colour: </td><td bgcolor="black" width="80"> </td></tr></table>
- A black dye, pigment.
- A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
- (context, sometimes capitalised) A person of African descent.
- (context, billiards, snooker, pool) the black: The black ball.
- (baseball) The edge of home plate
verb
- To make black, to blacken.
- 1859: Oliver Optic, Poor and Proud; or, The Fortunes of Katy Redburn, a Story for Young Folks http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=506735625&tag=Optic,+Oliver:+Poor+and+proud;+or,+The+fortunes+of+Katy+Redburn,+a+story+for+young+folks,+1859&query=+black+your&id=OptPoor
- :"I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully.
- :"Say that again, and I'll your eye for you."
- 1911: Edna Ferber, Buttered Side Down http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=302756157&tag=Ferber,+Edna:+Buttered+Side+Down,+1911&query=+black+your&id=FerButt
- :Ted, you can your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
- 1922: John Galsworthy, A Family Man: In Three Acts http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC00645065&id=vw6G-rbudVUC&pg=PA93&lpg=PA93&dq=%22black+his+eye%22&as_brr=1
- :I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. Of course father did his eye.
- To apply blacking to something.
- 1853: Harriet Beecher Stowe, The Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=600775507&tag=Stowe,+Harriet+Beecher:+The+Key+to+Uncle+Tom's+Cabin,+1853&query=+black+his&id=StoKeyu?
- :...he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
- 1861: George William Curtis, Trumps: A Novel http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=160888866&tag=EAF538&query=+black+your&id=eaf538
- :But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I your boots for you?"
- 1911: Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=/texts/english/modeng/publicsearch/modengpub.o2w&act=surround&offset=91865750&tag=Beerbohm,+Max,+Sir,+1872-1956:+Zuleika+Dobson,+1911&query=+black+your&id=BeeZule
- :Loving you, I could conceive no life sweeter than hers -- to be always near you; to your boots, carry up your coals, scrub your doorstep; always to be working for you, hard and humbly and without thanks.
- (British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
adjective
- (context, of an object) absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.
- (context, of a place, etc) without light.
- (context, sometimes capitalized) Relating to persons of African descent or (especially in the US) their culture.
- (context, Ireland, idiomatic) Overcrowded.
- Bad; evil.
- 1655, Benjamin Needler, Expository notes, with practical observations; towards the opening of the five first chapters of the first book of Moses called Genesis. London: N. Webb and W. Grantham, page 168.
- : ...what a day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
- Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
- 1866, The Contemporary Review, London: A. Strahan, page 338.
- :Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
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