Pronunciations
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/blɛk/
Noun
Any black fluid substance, as in blacking for leather, or black grease.
Ink.
Soot, smut.
A black man.
Usage- Obsolete
Coalfish (Pollachius virens).
Usage- dialectal
Verb
To blacken.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
To defile.
Usage- dialectal
- Obsolete
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Þerfore ȝif oure prelatis or oþere prestis, whatevere þei ben, ben opinly blecked by sacrifise of maumetrie, as wiþ covetise, þat is opinly sacrifise of fals goddys, and oþere grete sinnes, as pride, symonye, and man-quellinge, glotonye, dronkenesse, and lecherie, by þe same skil tyþis or offringis shulde be wiþdrawyn from hem by Goddis lawe, and be ȝoven to poeure nedy men, at ensaumple of riȝtful Tobie.