Blacks

1. n. pl. Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4.
2. n. pl. The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press.
3. n. pl. Soot flying in the air.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.