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lampblack

lampblack noun: an amorphous form of carbon made from soot (incompletely burned organic matter); used to make pigments and inks.

Noun

lampblack (countable and uncountable, plural lampblacks)

  1. An amorphous form of carbon made from soot (incompletely burned organic matter); used to make pigments and inks.
    • This Messrs. Greener and Straite allege they have effected by taking a quantity of lampblack or powdered charcoal, or of powdered coke, and which has been purified, by the action of electricity from sulphur and any other mixtures, and digesting the same in diluted nitro-muriatic acid.1846, editorial staff, “CHEMISTRY”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 2, Issue 13, page 102
    • A smudge of lampblack is made on his forehead to disfigure him and thus avert the evil eye.1906, James George Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris, volume 2, page 261

Verb

lampblack (third-person singular simple present lampblacks, present participle lampblacking, simple past and past participle lampblacked)

  1. (transitive) To blacken (something) using this form of carbon.
    • Gadsbodkins, you puny Upſtart in the Law, to uſe me ſo, you Green Bag Carrier, you Murderer of unfortunate Cauſes, the Clerks Ink is ſcarce off of your fingers, you that newly come from Lamblacking the Judges ſhooes, and are not fit to wipe mine; […]1676 December 11 (first performance), [William] Wycherley, The Plain-Dealer. A Comedy. […], London: […] T[homas] N[ewcomb] for James Magnes and Rich[ard] Bentley […], published 1677, →OCLC, Act III...

lampblack meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada

lampblack in Hindi

lampblack
कजरा kajrā

lampblack in Urdu

lampblack
کجرا kajrā

lampblack in Telugu

lampblack, collyrium, eyesalve, the magic ointment used for the purpose of discovering anything that is concealed
అంజనము añjanamu
lampblack
మషి maṣi

lampblack in Kannada

ಕಾಡಿಗೆ, ಕಣ್ಕಪ್ಪು, ಕಣ್ಣು ಕಪ್ಪು, ಕಣ್ಕಾಡಿಗೆ
More languagesFewer languages
lampblack in Sanskrit
कज्जल kajjala

Forms of lampblack

Noun
plurallampblacks
alternative formlamp-black
Verb
third-person singular presentlampblacks
present participlelampblacking
past participlelampblacked
pastlampblacked

Origin of lampblack

From lamp + black.

Questions about lampblack

What does lampblack mean?
Lampblack means an amorphous form of carbon made from soot (incompletely burned organic matter); used to make pigments and inks.
What is lampblack in Hindi?
Lampblack in Hindi is कजरा (kajrā). See Lampblack meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is lampblack?
Lampblack can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of lampblack?
The plural of lampblack is lampblacks.

Words near lampblack in the dictionary

  1. lampasse
  2. lampasses
  3. lampassé
  4. lampate
  5. lampates
  6. lampblack
  7. lampblacked
  8. lampblacking
  9. lampblacks
  10. lampboard
  11. lampboards

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: lampblack (page history and authors); कजरा (Hindi) (page history and authors); کجرا (Urdu) (page history and authors); అంజనము (Telugu) (page history and authors); lampblack (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); कज्जल (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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