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Berlin \Ber"lin\, n. [The capital of Germany]
   1. A four-wheeled carriage, having a sheltered seat behind
      the body and separate from it, invented in the 17th
      century, at Berlin.
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   2. Fine worsted for fancy-work; zephyr worsted; -- called
      also {Berlin wool}.
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   {Berlin black}, a black varnish, drying with almost a dead
      surface; -- used for coating the better kinds of ironware.
      --Ure.

   {Berlin blue}, Prussian blue. --Ure.

   {Berlin green}, a complex cyanide of iron, used as a green
      dye, and similar to Prussian blue.

   {Berlin iron}, a very fusible variety of cast iron, from
      which figures and other delicate articles are
      manufactured. These are often stained or lacquered in
      imitation of bronze.

   {Berlin shop}, a shop for the sale of worsted embroidery and
      the materials for such work.

   {Berlin work}, worsted embroidery.
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Black \Black\, n.
   1. That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest
      color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth
      has a good black.
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            Black is the badge of hell,
            The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. --Shak.
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   2. A black pigment or dye.
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   3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or
      shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain
      African races.
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   4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.)
      Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
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            Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the
            like show death terrible.             --Bacon.
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            That was the full time they used to wear blacks for
            the death of their fathers.           --Sir T.
                                                  North.
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   5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest
      by being black.
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            The black or sight of the eye.        --Sir K.
                                                  Digby.
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   6. A stain; a spot; a smooch.
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            Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks
            of lust.                              --Rowley.
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   {Black and white}, writing or print; as, I must have that
      statement in black and white.

   {Blue black}, a pigment of a blue black color.

   {Ivory black}, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by
      calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief
      ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing.

   {Berlin black}. See under {Berlin}.
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