BLAKER. BLACKER. Cotgrave defines a blaclur as noirehsseur. The hitter word he Englishes by " blacker, blackener, lleacke?;" &c., tlius confounding two opposite ideas, and literally "making white black." The truth is, that the A-Sax. hlao, iinaccented, means black, while Mac signifies pale or white, and the derivative verb, hh'ician, to bleach, or make pale. The Promptorium malies ' bleykester' and ' whytster' synonjanous, and explains them by cand'uJarius, a whitener or bleacher of linen, which is doubtless the meaning of this surname. Blncre, apparently used as a baptismal name, is found in Domesd. The 131ackers of co. Armagh, derive themselves traditionally from I'lacar, a Northman chief who settled at Dublin early in the X. cent. Burke's Commoners, ii. -18.

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