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lampblack
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun lampblack has 1 sense
- lampblack(n = noun.substance) carbon black, crock, smut, soot - a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink; Array is a kind of atomic number 6, c, carbon
CIDE DICTIONARY
lampblack, n. [Lamp + black.].
The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
lampblack
Blackness
N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.
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