Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Fine soot collected from incompletely burned carbonaceous materials, used as a pigment and in matches, explosives, lubricants, and fertilizers.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A fine black pigment consisting of particles of carbon, pure or almost pure, used for making paints and ink.
- To treat with lampblack; coat with lampblack.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The fine impalpable soot obtained from the smoke of carbonaceous substances which have been only partly burnt, as in the flame of a smoking lamp. It consists of finely divided carbon, with sometimes a very small proportion of various impurities. It is used as an ingredient of printers' ink, and various black pigments and cements.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
amorphous form ofcarbon made fromincompletely burned organic matter ; used to makepigments andinks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
Etymologies
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Examples
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To a tea cup of molasses stir in lampblack until it is black, then add the white of two eggs, well beaten, and to this add a pint of vinegar or whiskey, and put it in a bottle for use.
Confederate Receipt Book: A Compilation of over One Hundred Receipts, Adapted to the Times 1865
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However, he doesn't mention the effort to press premium audiophile LPs out of clear vinyl without the addition of the lampblack, which is said to result in the same enhancement of the sonics.
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That in starting the fire it did not smoke and cover the tire with carbon or "lampblack," which is a non-conductor of heat.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887 Various
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In 1834, a beauty book from the period stated that some people used, "lampblack," commonly known as soot.
Pretty Blogger 2008
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Anodynes of theft and memory's feeding tongues all neatly razored at the root defy our lampblack salt.
Two Matt Dennison 2012
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On the night of Dec. 16, 1773, dozens of men wrapped themselves in blankets and covered their faces in lampblack and soot.
Noble Patriots or Glorified Vandals? Benjamin L. Carp 2010
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One of the tricks whalers used when they became icebound was to mix lampblack with oil and paint a path out of the ice with it.
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Egyptian kohl and sometimes ordinary soot or lampblack was used in eye makeup.
Best in Beauty Riku Campo 2010
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The oil lamps had recent lampblack, so the boy spent a lot of time here.
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Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or lampblack.
Les Miserables 2008
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