A Quick and Simple Dictionary

Black

1. Proper noun.  (surname, from Middle English) .
2. Adjective.  (context, of an object) absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.
3. Adjective.  (context, of a place, etc) without light.
4. Adjective.  (context, sometimes capitalize) Relating to persons of (usually noticeable) negroid African descent or their culture. Also people of Aborigine or Maori descent.
5. Adjective.  Bad; evil; ill-omened.
6. Adjective.  Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
7. Adjective.  (context, Ireland) Overcrowded.
8. Adjective.  (context, of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk(,) or creamer.
9. Adjective.  (context, board games) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set, no matter what the actual colour.
10. Noun.  The colour/color perceived in the absence of light.
11. Noun.  A black dye, pigment.
12. Noun.  A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
13. Noun.  (context, in plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
14. Noun.  (context, sometimes capitalised) A person of African descent, Aborigine or Maori.
15. Noun.  (context, billiards) The black ball.
16. Noun.  (baseball) The edge of home plate.
17. Noun.  (British) a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
18. Noun.  (informal) blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
19. Noun.  In chess and similar games, the person playing with the black set of pieces.
20. Verb.  To make black, to blacken.
21. Verb.  To apply blacking to something.
22. Verb.  (British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.