Crossword clues for lampblack
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lampblack \Lamp"black`\, n. [Lamp + black.] 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.
Wiktionary
alt. An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks. n. An amorphous form of carbon made from incompletely burned organic matter; used to make pigments and inks. vb. (cx transitive English) To blacken using this form of carbon.
WordNet
n. a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, soot, smut]
Usage examples of "lampblack".
The red-headed, squint-eyed bully and his chums had their knives out, and were about to cut some of the important guy wires, when, at a signal from Tom, Ned, with a sweep of his broom, sent a big pile of the dirt, sawdust and lampblack down upon the heads of the conspirators.
They shed shavings, sawdust and lampblack at every step, and from their clothes and hands and faces dripped the carmine paint.
I excused myself as I moved around a party which included the Undersecretary of State in a lampblack suit.
To have been able to write on dry tablets of wood or barks of trees with the reed or brush, the then only ink-writing instruments in vogue would have necessitated the employment of lampblack suspended in a vehicle of thick gum, or in the form of a paint.
Knucklebones found the ironmongery by the smell of rust, lampblack, and grease.
They were black as if their bodies had been painted with lampblack or paint.
Face, neck and hands became covered with mixture of lampblack and turpentine, forming a coating as thick as heavy brown paper, and absolutely irremovable by water alone.
He wears lampblack under his eyes and thick white pigment across his forehead and cheeks.
That was another thing she had done in prison: With a finger dipped in lampblack, she had drawn on the walls likenesses of those passing through.
The dark was so dark that it was like lampblack, and the lights so light that the coldest blue fire of diamonds could not touch them.
The grease which we employed was made by mixing lampblack and olive oil to such a consistence that it could be laid on in a thick layer.
The stout, big-breasted matron stood before him, thrusting a cloth of lampblack into his hand.
Corbett or anyone else should be abroad, for it was a drizzling cold November night, and the streets were muddy, as only Winnipeg streets in the old days could be--none of your light-minded, fickle-hearted, changeable mud that is mud to-day and dust to-morrow, but the genuine, original, brush-defying, soap-and-water-proof, north star, burr mud, blacker than lampblack, stickier than glue!
There was little need of this protection now for he was dressed all in matt black: low boots, cotton trousers, long-sleeved shirt, lacquered reed waistcoat, gloves and a hooded mask that covered all his face save a strip across his eyes that had been smeared with lampblack mixed with a fine charcoal powder to eliminate the possibility of reflection.
That was a mixture of lampblack and goose grease, Matarro had said.