Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

421; swartliness†, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro &c 420. nigrification†, infuscation†. jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow. [derogatory terms for black-skinned people] negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, nigger [U.S.]; coon [U.S.], sambo. [Pigments] lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink. V. be black &c adj.; render black &c adj.. blacken, infuscate†, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch†; smirch; darken &c 421. black, sable, swarthy, somber, dark, inky, ebony, ebon, atramentous†, jetty; coal-black, jet-black; fuliginous†, pitchy, sooty, swart, dusky, dingy, murky, Ethiopic; low-toned, low in tone; of the deepest dye. black as jet &c n., black as my hat, black as a shoe, black as a tinker's pot, black as November, black as thunder, black as midnight; nocturnal &c (dark) 421; nigrescent†; gray &c 432; obscure &c 421. Adv. in mourning.