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Definition of Blackwash

1. Noun. An attack intended to ruin someone's reputation.

2. Verb. Bring (information) out of concealment.

3. Noun. A mixture of calomel and limewater that is used on syphilitic sores.

4. Verb. Color with blackwash.

5. Noun. A wash that colors a surface black.

Definition of Blackwash

1. Noun. (slang) (New Zealand) a whitewash victory for any New Zealand national sporting team (also known as a ''blackout'') ¹

2. Noun. (slang) (cricket) a whitewash victory for the West Indies cricket team ¹

3. Noun. (slang) (coal mine) public campaigns and advertising funded by the coal industry to draw attention away from environmentally unsustainable practices or to justify excusion from carbon taxes. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Blackwash

1. 1. A lotion made by mixing calomel and lime water. 2. A wash that blackens, as opposed to whitewash; hence, figuratively, calumny. "To remove as far as he can the modern layers of black wash, and let the man himself, fair or foul, be seen." (C. Kingsley) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Blackwash

blacktail prairie dog blacktails blackthorns blacktip blacktip shark blacktips blacktop blacktopped blacktopping blacktops

blacktress blacktresses blackware blackwares blackwash (current term) blackwashes blackwater fever blackwaters blackwit blackwits

blackwood blackwood tree blackwoods blackwork blackworm blacky blad bladded

Literary usage of Blackwash

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Dictionary of Trade Products, Manufacturing, and Technical Terms: With a by Peter Lund Simmonds (1858)
"BLACK TIN. tin ore, beaten into a black and fine powder for smelting. BLACK WAD, an ore of manganese used as a dryer tor painters' colours. blackwash ..."

2. Modern Iron Foundry Practice by George Robert Bale (1902)
"with "parting" blackwash,* consisting of finely powdered charcoal mixed with ... This blackwash serves the same purpose in loam-moulding that parting sand ..."

3. General Foundry Practice by Andrew McWilliam, Percy Longmuir (1907)
"Thus, the mould may be plugged at the bottom, tilled with blackwash, and then drained from the bottom. With large pipes a leather disc mounted on a long rod ..."

4. Mechanical Technology: Being a Treatise on the Materials and Preparatory by George Frederick Charnock (1916)
"The thickness piece is then peeled off, the blackwash acting as a parting, leaving the inside core ready to be placed in the mould. Fig. ..."

5. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1863)
"... and apply warm-water dressing for a day or two and then resume the opium and blackwash lotion. February 6th : We heard that the sore No. ..."

6. History of the Sect of Mahārājas, Or Vallabhāchāryas, in Western India by Karsondas Mulji (1865)
"I used this blackwash; the lime water for it was prepared in my own place. I put the powder into it and so made blackwash, which was applied. ..."

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