a. [f. BLACK a. + -ISH.] Somewhat black; inclining to black.

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1486.  Bk. St. Albans, B iij. As longe as yowre hawkes fete be blakysh and rough: she is full of grece.

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1611.  Bible, Job vi. 15–6. My brethren haue delt deceitfully as a brooke, & as the streame of brookes they passe away,
  Which are blackish by reason of the yee, and wherein the snow is hid.

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1803.  Hatchett, in Phil. Trans., XCIII. 65. A blackish-brown colour.

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1884.  Browning, Ferishtah, 109. Till blackish seems but dun, and whitish—grey.

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  Hence Blackishly adv., Blackishness sb.

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1580.  Hollyband, Treas. Fr. Tong, Noircissure, blackishnesse.

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1627.  Grew, Anat. Plants, vii. § 17. By their Blackishness well enough remark’d.

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1670.  H. Stubbe, Plus Ultra, 147. But the blood turned blackishly-red.

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