The process of electrotyping is as follows: The form is locked up very tightly, and is then coated with a surface of graphite, commonly known as blacklead, but it is a misnomer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference

He brought out his order book and a blacklead pencil.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People] Reference

The kitchen was spotlessly clean, the grate shining with blacklead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Carved Cupboard] Reference

She came to the door in her sacking apron, a blacklead-brush in her hand, and a black smudge on her nose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference

For there was, as it follows afterward, Grecian hyssop: fucous hyssop, perhaps of the colour of blacklead: Roman hyssop, and wild hyssop.    From Wordnik.com.  [From the Talmud and Hebraica] Reference

Slaveys, with clasped hands and faces pale beneath smudges of blacklead, shook in the hall or on the stairs and landing whilst Darco roared, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Plaster casts may also be made to resemble bronze to a certain extent by merely brushing them over with graphite, which is a brilliant blacklead.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

This process prevents entirely the circulation of blacklead in the air, which has heretofore been so objectionable in the process of electrotyping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference

The wax mould being built, is ready for blackleading, to give it a conducting surface upon which the metal may be deposited in the bath, superfluous blacklead being removed with a bellows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885] Reference

The transfer paper can be made by rubbing white paper with a composition consisting of two ounces of tallow, one-half ounce powdered blacklead, one-quarter pint linseed oil, and sufficient lampblack to make it of the consistency of cream.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

This I discovered to be the blacklead from the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference

The only remedy was to avoid the blacklead altogether.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference

"She shall never know," said Jim tragically, waving a blacklead brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Jim] Reference

Some gilders prefer to use blacklead or a mixture of chalk and blacklead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians] Reference

'I wish I knew if he had any connection with Tarrant's blacklead,' said Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Year of Jubilee] Reference

Maitland knew all the blacklead caves, broad-hatted brigands, and pea-green trees.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mark Of Cain] Reference

"That's a good notion," said Jim, sitting back on his heels, blacklead brush in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Jim] Reference

Hearths and jambs, of brick, look best painted over with blacklead, mixed with soft-soap.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School] Reference

A blacklead brush hurtled across the room: he caught it neatly and returned it to the owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Jim] Reference

Let me add that in the new cells the floors are all boarded, and the blacklead nuisance is there unknown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference

In return, linen and woollen fabrics, leather goods, glassware, blacklead, and steel implements were carried to the far East.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges] Reference

Lightly rub the thumb on blacklead or on paper that is blacked with pencil, then press the thumb on paper and examine with magnifying glass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scouting For Girls, Official Handbook of the Girl Scouts] Reference

One of the most original, unique, and successful humbugs of the present day was the late Monsieur Mangin, the blacklead pencil maker of Paris.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference

We encountered both artists, professional or amateur, of blacklead and bristol board, but we met a waiter there who was an artist -- in his line.    From Wordnik.com.  [Europe Revised] Reference

She opened them one by one and found canary-seed, blacklead, washing-blue, powdered cloves, cinnamon, sugar-candy, burnt-ash ... but no English salt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Path of Life] Reference

He could stand on a chair and recite poetry, or he could wield his blacklead pencil and take the portrait of any one who would condescend to sit to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in England Notes and Studies] Reference

There his powers of drawing failed him; moonlight on Snowdon was too vague a subject for the blacklead point but a hint of it could be conveyed in rhyme.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of John Ruskin] Reference

The portrait of Mino is in our book of drawings, but I do not know by whose hand; it was given to me together with some drawings made with blacklead by Mino himself, which have no little beauty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 03 (of 10), Filarete and Simone to Mantegna] Reference

"Well, I'm not going to tell tales out of school; but if you'd only got one pair of brown boots in the world and one pair of brown gaiters, and the boy tried to clean them with blacklead and paraffin oil! ...".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rhodesian] Reference

That ended the conversation, and the blacklead question was never agitated again, although once or twice, during my absence from the cell, the obnoxious stuff was put on the floor and polished up by one of the cleaners.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prisoner for Blasphemy] Reference

"I wish you would tell me what brand of blacklead you use on those iron ventilators that are let into the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Best Short Stories] Reference

France or in Great Britain who don't know that I manufacture by far the best blacklead pencils ever seen. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Humbugs of the World An Account of Humbugs, Delusions, Impositions, Quackeries, Deceits and Deceivers Generally, in All Ages] Reference

A blacklead pencil in his fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiddie the Scout] Reference