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Definition of Blackenings
1. blackening [n] - See also: blackening
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackenings
Literary usage of Blackenings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. International Library of Technology: A Series of Textbooks for Persons by International Textbook Company (1906)
"In some cases skin drying is practiced for brass as well as for iron. The principal
difference is that instead of using ordinary blackenings, ..."
2. The Journal of Medical Research by American Association of Pathologists and Bacteriologists (1908)
"These changes consisted in blackenings of scattered myelin sheaths ... The linear
blackenings, which exhibit the affected fiber as replaced by a row of ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"In other words, if B„ B, and B, are the blackenings due respectively to a certain
beam, to the same beam made intermittent and to a beam of decreased ..."
4. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"... down which white streams trickle like threads, what sunbursts and sudden
blackenings, what wreaths and rollings of mist from the tops overhead ! ..."
5. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1860)
"... (blackenings)—the word she would h;ive used had she confessed her purpose.
Her ruling ideas were to paint the petit ..."
6. Lectures on surgical pathology: Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons by James Paget, William Turner, Royal College of Surgeons of England (1865)
"The conditions, which some have classed under the name " spurious melanosis,"
are blackenings of various structures, whose only common character is that ..."
7. The Indian Alps and how We Crossed Them: Being a Narrative of Two Years by Nina Elizabeth Mazuchelli (1876)
"What sudden bursts of sunshine and gloomy blackenings ! affording a power and
variety in nature's colouring, by force of contrast, that uninterrupted ..."
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