Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who blackens.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who blackens.

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  • noun One who blackens.

Etymologies

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blacken +‎ -er

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Examples

  • As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines,464

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • As for the other, he is a model of wantonness and scurrilousness and a blackener of the face of hoariness; his dye acteth the foulest of lies: and the tongue of his case reciteth these lines, [FN#464] 'Quoth she to me,' I see thou dy'st thy hoariness; 'and I,' I do but hide it from thy sight, O thou mine ear and eye! '

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Daysha Parhar sports a tooth blackener as part of a clothing line named Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 & 2011 Edition.

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • Daysha Parhar sports a tooth blackener as part of a clothing line named Cool Sporting Event That Takes Place in British Columbia Between 2009 & 2011 Edition.

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • A Christmas "gag gift" is "hockey helmet" headgear complete with tooth blackener for that Bobby Clarke grin.

    canada.com Top Stories 2009

  • Antimony is so called from Greek antimonos, ` against single (ness) 'owing to its readiness to react with other substances, but its chemical symbol is Sb, from Latin stibium, the name of a cosmetic and medicinal powder (antimony sulfide) used by Roman women as a hair blackener for their eyebrows, and in ophthalmology

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XXIII No 4 1998

  • Colonel affords a convincing proof that there is a black and a white side to every cause: But what must the conscience of a partial whitener of his own cause, or blackener of another’s, tell him, while he is throwing dust in the eyes of his judges, and all the time knows his own guilt?

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

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