Black Definition–adjective | 1. | lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it. | | 2. | characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night. | | 3. | (sometimes initial capital letter ) | a. | pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia. | | | 4. | soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour. | | 5. | gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook. | | 6. | deliberately; harmful; inexcusable: a black lie. | | 7. | boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words; black looks. | | 8. | (of coffee or tea) without milk or cream. | | 9. | without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed. | | 10. | indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment: a black mark on one's record. | | 11. | marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday. | | 12. | wearing black or dark clothing or armor: the black prince. | | 13. | based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy; black humor. | | 14. | (of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, sub-standard, potentially dangerous, etc.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports. | | 15. | illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes. | | 16. | showing a profit; not showing any losses: the first black quarter in two years. |
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Magic Definition–noun | 1. | the art of producing illusions as entertainment by the use of sleight of hand, deceptive devices, etc.; legerdemain; conjuring: to pull a rabbit out of a hat by magic. | | 2. | the art of producing a desired effect or result through the use of incantation or various other techniques that presumably assure human control of supernatural agencies or the forces of nature. Compare contagious magic, imitative magic, sympathetic magic. | | 3. | the use of this art: Magic, it was believed, could drive illness from the body. | | 4. | the effects produced: the magic of recovery. | | 5. | power or influence exerted through this art: a wizard of great magic. | | 6. | any extraordinary or mystical influence, charm, power, etc.: the magic in a great name; the magic of music; the magic of spring. | | 7. | (initial capital letter) the U.S. code name for information from decrypting machine-enciphered Japanese wireless messages before and during World War II. | –adjective | 8. | employed in magic: magic spells; magic dances; magic rites. | | 9. | mysteriously enchanting; magical: magic beauty. | | 10. | of, pertaining to, or due to magic. | | 11. | producing the effects of magic; magical: a magic touch. | |
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