/blak/
noun
The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.A black dye or pigment.A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.(in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.(sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.Blackness, the condition of having dark skin.The black ball.The edge of home plate.A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).(in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.A stain; a spot.A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.Marijuana.verb
To make black; to blacken.To apply blacking to (something).To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.adjective
(of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.(of a place, etc) Without light.(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.(of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare redBad; evil; ill-omened.Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.(of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.Overcrowded.(of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-CatholicHaving one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.Foul; dirty.