- See Blacka., and cf. Blackv. t.
- To make or render black.While the long funerals blacken all the way.
- To make dark; to darken; to cloud.Blackenedthe whole heavens.
- To defame; to sully, as reputation; to make infamous; as, vice blackens the character.To denigrate; defame; vilify; slander; calumniate; traduce; malign; asperse.
