a town of Lancashire in England, seated near the river Derwent. It takes its name from the brook Blackwater which runs through it. W. Long. 2. 15. N. Lat. 53. 40.

BLACKING is sometimes used for a fastidious black; as lamp-black, shoe-black, &c. A mixture of ivory or lamp-black with linseed oil makes the common oil blacking. For a shining blacking, small-beer or water is used instead of oil, in the proportion of about a pint to an ounce of the ivory-black, with the addition of half an ounce of brown sugar, and as much gum arabic. The white of an egg substituted for the gum makes the black more shining; but is supposed to hurt the leather, and make it apt to crack.