A kind of ink in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape and the residue of the wine press.
Black garments, etc.
that was the full time they vsed to were blackes for the death of their fathers 1579, Thomas North, The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romanes:
Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible. 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Death”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
blacks en · VERB
Pronunciation
/blæks/
Meanings
(form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person) third-person singular simple present indicative of black