Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.

In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.

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.

A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

Includes persons who indicated their race as "Black or Negro" or reported entries such as African American, Afro-American, Black Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Nigerian, West Indian, or Haitian.

any scene containing one or more African-American women.

Coined by communist Stokeley Carmichael to refer to Negroes: is patronizing to non-Negroes. Better to use minority; Negro is sometimes acceptable.

a horse whose entire coat, mane, and tail is black with the exception of white markings.

having a black background with black markings

The player who moves second. (But, in the Orient, the player with white stones traditionally moves second.)

The entire coat of the horse is black, including the muzzle, the flanks, the mane, tail and legs, unless white markings are present.

A stain; a spot; a smooch.

An even-money bet on the ball to land on any black number.

When a player bets on the black spots of the wheel.

A roulette bet on all the black numbers.

100 chips. I don't bet black, I bet green.

Chip = A $100 chip.

100 chips (which are black in many casinos)

The most common colour used for $100 chips.

One of the players in the game of Backgammon, the one using the darker or black checkers.

(board games) the darker pieces

The player who uses the black or darker checkers.

A colour used in backgammon articles referring to the darker of the two colours used.

marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"

stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"

A black pigment or dye.

The complete absence of light. Because of impurities, you can not create black with pigments. In most black pigments, the is a slight blue trace. A black surface absorbs all light.

Probably the least attractive colour for diamond, although there seems good demand for treated black diamonds. The main attraction surely being the excellent surface lustre. Black is technically the complete absence of any colour. Many black diamonds have poor surface quality and are probably partially carbonado.

A black appearance is desirable preferably with 'bloom'.

mold”: This poorly defined term, which has no scientific meaning (also called “toxic black mold”), has been associated with Stachybotrys chartarum. While only a few mold s are truly black, many appear black. Not all mold s that appear to be black are Stachybotrys.

The appearance of a blank black video screen, often used for transitions from one program to the next, as in 'fade to black.'

Fischer Black born in 1938, is remembered for his work on the pricing of derivatives. Together with Robert Merton and Myron Scholes, he made a pioneering contribution to economic sciences by developing a new method of determining the value of derivatives - known as the "Black-Scholes" option pricing model. Their innovative work in the early 1970s, which solved a longstanding problem in financial economics, has provided us with completely new ways of dealing with financial risk, both in theory and in practice. Their method has contributed substantially to the rapid growth of markets for derivatives in the last two decades. Fischer Black died in 1995.

distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

Fischer and Myron S. Scholes (1973). The pricing of options and corporate liabilities, Journal of Political Economy, 81, 637-654.

Beans. Dead coffee beans which have dropped from the trees before harvest. For counting imperfections in grading coffee on the New York Coffee Exchange, the black bean has been taken as the basis unit and all imperfections are calculated in terms of black beans.

(of coffee) without cream or sugar

Native of the Yucatán; satiny black on the exterior, creamy white inside, with a hearty, almost smoky flavor; commonly used in soups and low-fat sauces, side dishes, salads and puréed; cooked beans can be rinsed and added to salsas for visual interest. This multipurpose dried bean is medium-sized (up to one-half inch long), round to almost square, and deep black with a white line and interior.

(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

A term used to refer to a secret program that has not been acknowledged, e.g. 'Aurora', 'Astra', TR-3 etc. Also used as state of a runway. if the runway is Black, then its not useable due to a crash or mishap etc.