Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary -- Volume AB
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud.
Shak.
3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. "This day's black fate." "Black villainy." "Arise, black vengeance." "Black day." "Black despair." Shak.
4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
Black is often used in self-explaining compound words; as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired, black-visaged.
-- Black act, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts.
-- Black angel (Zoöl.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida (Holacanthus tricolor), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black.
-- Black antimony (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, Sb2S3, used in pyrotechnics, etc.
-- Black bear (Zoöl.), the common American bear (Ursus Americanus).
-- Black beast. See Bête noire.
-- Black beetle (Zoöl.), the common large cockroach (Blatta orientalis).
-- Black and blue, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. "To pinch the slatterns black and blue." Hudibras.
-- Black bonnet (Zoöl.), the black-headed bunting (Embriza Schœniclus) of Europe.
-- Black canker, a disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar.
-- Black cat (Zoöl.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See Fisher.