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Black lead, black-lead, blacklead. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Black lead, black-lead, blacklead † 1.  A black ore of LEAD. Obs.

1   2.  The ordinary name of the mineral called also plumbago or graphite; a substance of greyish-black color and metallic luster, consisting of almost pure carbon with a slight admixture of iron; it is chiefly used (made into pencils) for drawing and writing, and for giving a black metallic polish to iron-work. (The name dates back to days before the real composition of the substance was known.)

2 1583.  Plat, Divers New Exp. (1594), 39. Some … draw thereon with blacke lead.

3 1610.  Holland, Camden’s Brit., I. 767. That minerall kind of earth or hardned glittering stone (we cal it Black-lead).

4 1612.  Brinsley, Lud. Lit., 47. Note them with a pensil of black lead.

5 1683.  Pettus, Fleta Min., II. Lead, Of late it [black lead] is curiously formed into cases of deal or cedar, and so sold as dry pencils.

6 1732.  De Foe, etc., Tour Gt. Brit. (1769), III. 320. The Black-lead is found in heavy Lumps, some of which are hard, gritty, and of small Value, others soft and of a fine Texture.

7 1866.  Ruskin, Eth. Dust., 18. There is a little iron mixed with our black lead.

8   b.  This substance in the form of a pencil.

9 1656.  Dugard, Gate Lat. Unl., § 725. 225. Have with you alwayes a table-book (or black-lead and paper).

10 1832.  Carlyle, in Fraser’s Mag., V. 390. Boswell is there with ass-skin and black-lead to note thy jargon.

11   c.  Writing done with a black-lead pencil.

12 1667.  Pepys, (1877), V. 276. Having done it without looking on my paper, I find I could not read the black-lead.

13   d.  A preparation of inferior quality for domestic use in polishing grates and other cast-iron utensils.

14 a. 1849.  Chambers, Inform. People, II. 788/2. Stove-grates are cleaned with black-lead mixed with turpentine.

15   3.  Attrib. and Comb. (bla·ck-lead), as black-lead pen, pencil, study, etc.; † black-lead comb, a comb used to darken the hair.

16 1655.  Gurnall, Chr. in Arm., ix. § 3 (1669), 145. He could not bear the sight of his own grey hairs, and therefore used a *black-lead-comb to discolour them.

17 1716.  Swift, Progr. Beauty, Wks. 1755, III. II. 166. To think of black-lead combs is vain.

18 1612.  Brinsley, Lud. Lit., 247. Being noted with a line with a *blacklead pen.

19 1687.  M. Clifford, Notes Dryden, ii. 5. I … put up my Black Lead Pen.

20 1677.  Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 36. With a *Black-lead Pencil, draw a line from that Mark to the second Mark.

21 1790.  Boswell, Johnson (1831), I. 162. He had marked the passages with a black-lead pencil.

22 1813.  Examiner, 17 May, 311/2. S. Terry *black-lead-maker.

23 1862.  Thornbury, Turner, I. 87. His … *blacklead studies of trees.

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