self-black Chiefly northern.
Also 6 selblack(e.
[self B. 3.]
a. Of a uniformly black colour. b. Of a naturally black colour, not dyed. Also n., a colour of this description; † a stuff of such a colour.
| 1558 Will of Rolandson of Kendal (Somerset Ho.), A sel⁓blacke jerkin. 1562 Richmond Wills (Surtees) 152 Inprimis, iij. mellyd russetts, xlij s. Item ij. other selblacks, xx s... Blacke woulle, xx s. Selblacke woulle, xij s. 1573 Ibid. 235 To Sybbel y⊇ doghter of Robart my soon a browne cote, a pare of selblacke slevys. 1595 Aberdeen Reg. (1848) II. 117 Ane gown of selfblak. 1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1816) IV. 626/2 Selffblak Claithe maid in Scotland. 1828 [W. Carr] Craven Gloss. II. 109 My stockins er self black. |