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Definition of Blacking
1. Noun. A substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear.
Definition of Blacking
1. n. Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
Definition of Blacking
1. Verb. (present participle of black) ¹
2. Noun. a preparation, containing lampblack, used to produce a shiny black coating to something ¹
3. Noun. shoe polish ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Blacking
1. black shoe polish [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blacking
Literary usage of Blacking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"He bought this 'right and title, and went into the blacking business and ' the
blacking premises. ' —In an evil hour for me, as I often bitterly thought. ..."
2. American Foundry Practice: Treating of Loam, Dry Sand and Green Sand by Thomas Dyson West (1882)
"IT is of great value to a moulder to have a mixture of blacking that will peel
and make a smooth skin of a dark blue color on a casting, and the failure to ..."
3. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody. An Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1860)
"This makes good blacking for boot, shoe, or harness edge, also. ... Tanners will,
of course, first apply the urine before applying- the blacking, ..."
4. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley, W. North (1892)
"This forms the ordinary paste- blacking of Germany, according to Liebig. ...
To produce a first-rate sample of blacking it is absolutely necessary that the ..."
5. The Mysteries of Trade: Containing Receipts and Patents in Chemistry and by David Beman (1825)
"LIQUID JAPAN blacking. Take three ounces of ivory black, two ounces of coarse
sugar, one ounce of sulphuric acid, one ounce of muriatic acid, one lemon, ..."
6. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"blacking. THE following description of the essential conditions for the production of
... blacking consists essentially of two principal components, namely, ..."
7. The Life of Charles Dickens by John Forster (1872)
"He bought this 'right and title, and went into the blacking business and ' the
blacking premises. ' —In an evil hour for me, as I often bitterly thought. ..."
8. American Foundry Practice: Treating of Loam, Dry Sand and Green Sand by Thomas Dyson West (1882)
"IT is of great value to a moulder to have a mixture of blacking that will peel
and make a smooth skin of a dark blue color on a casting, and the failure to ..."
9. Dr. Chase's Recipes: Or, Information for Everybody. An Invaluable Collection by Alvin Wood Chase (1860)
"This makes good blacking for boot, shoe, or harness edge, also. ... Tanners will,
of course, first apply the urine before applying- the blacking, ..."
10. Cooley's Cyclopædia of Practical Receipts and Collateral Information in the by Arnold James Cooley, W. North (1892)
"This forms the ordinary paste- blacking of Germany, according to Liebig. ...
To produce a first-rate sample of blacking it is absolutely necessary that the ..."
11. The Mysteries of Trade: Containing Receipts and Patents in Chemistry and by David Beman (1825)
"LIQUID JAPAN blacking. Take three ounces of ivory black, two ounces of coarse
sugar, one ounce of sulphuric acid, one ounce of muriatic acid, one lemon, ..."
12. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"blacking. THE following description of the essential conditions for the production of
... blacking consists essentially of two principal components, namely, ..."
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