▪ I. ˈsmoke-black, n.
[smoke n. 1.]
A form of lamp-black obtained by the combustion of resinous materials.
| 1712 tr. Pomet's Hist. Drugs I. 204 The black sealing Wax is ting'd or colour'd with Smoak Black. 1841 Lane Arab. Nts. I. 130 An inferior kind is the smoke-black produced by burning the shells of almonds. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Smoke-black, a substance prepared by the combustion of different resinous bodies. 1896 De Vinne Moxon's Printing 412 The crude smoke-black of commerce. |
▪ II. ˈsmoke-black, v.
[smoke n. 1.]
trans. To blacken with smoke.
| 1809–10 Coleridge Friend (Bohn) II. 302 The counterfeit frankincense which smoke-blacks the favourite idol of a Catholic village. |