of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.Any preparation for making things black; esp.giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.The act or process of making black.Somewhat black.A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc

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1. 1. A dungeon or dark cell in a prison; a military lock-up or guardroom; -- now commonly with allusion to the cell (the Black Hole) in a fort at Calcutta, into which 146 English prisoners were thrust by the nabob Suraja Dowla on the night of June 20, 17656, and in which 123 of the prisoners died before morning from lack of air.
2. 2. Any preparation for making things black; esp. one for giving a black luster to boots and shoes, or to stoves.
3. 3. The act or process of making black.
4. 4. Somewhat black.
5. 5. A name given by English miners to sphalerite, or zinc blende; -- called also false galena. See Blende.
6. 6. Morbid quality; disease; sickness.
7. 7. Pertaining to the measles; partaking of the nature of measels, or resembling the eruptions of that disease; measly.
8. 8. Biting; caustic; sarcastic; keen; severe.
9. 9. of Mordant
10. 10. The act of biting or corroding; corrosion.