inkn.¹

Brit.

/ɪŋk/, U.S.

/ɪŋk/

Forms: Middle English enke, (Middle English enk, henk), Middle English inc, Middle English, 1500s–1600s inck, Middle English–1500s ynk(e, Middle English–1600s inke, (1500s incke, 1500s–1600s yncke), Middle English– ink.

Etymology: < Old French enque (11th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter; in modern French encre ) < late Latin encaustum , < Greek ἔγκαυστον the purple ink used by the Greek and Roman emperors for their signatures, < ἐγκαίειν to burn in (see encaustic adj. and n.). The Old French form retained the Greek accent, while Italian inchiostro (Old Milanese incostro, Diez) is due to the Latin stressing encau·stum, *encau·strum. The word has been adopted in Bohemian as inkoust, formerly inkaust; and in Dutch as inkt (older enkt).

a. The coloured (usually black) fluid ordinarily employed in writing with a pen on paper, parchment, etc. ( writing ink), or the viscous paste used for a similar purpose in printing (printing or printer's ink).When the word is used without qualification, the ordinary black writing-fluid is commonly meant. The various kinds of ink are distinguished by their colour, as black, red, blue, gold ink, etc.; by the purpose which they serve, as copying, lithographic, marking, printing (or printer's), writing ink; by some special quality, as indelible, invisible, sympathetic ink; by the place of manufacture, as China, Indian Ink.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun]

inkc1250

arnementc1300

writing ink1548

magnetic ink1953

society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > ink

printing ink1553

ink1569

printers' inka1631

c1250 Meid Maregrete lxi So boc is writen wid enke.

a1300 Cursor Mundi 648 Es nan forsoth wit hert mai think, Ne writer nan mai write wit inc [Trin. MS. enke] Þe mikel ioy.

c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 194 On vche braunche was a word of þreo maner enkes; Gold and Seluer he seis and Asur forsoþe.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 91 We how not to honor þe gospel þus, þat is to sey, þe henk, or þe parchemyn.

1480 W. Caxton Descr. Scotl. (1520) 1/2 They wolde somtyme..peynt them with ynke or with other peinture or coloure.

1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxv Some..peynten with colours ryche, and some with vers, as with red ynke, and some with coles and chalke.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 637 Guthenlergius,..within .xvj. yeres after did inuent the ynke which the Printers now vse.

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 Deformed monsters, fowle, and blacke as inke.

1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 285 Such a thinne kinde of inke or vernish, that it did..darken the.. glasing colours.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 142 The Indians dye Skins, and make Ink with them.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Indian, or Chinese Ink, is an admirable Composition... It is not fluid like our Writing-Inks.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Printing-Ink is made of Nut-Oil or Linseed-Oil, Turpentine and a kind of Black.

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Every sort of liquor with which a person may write so that the letters do not appear till there is some particular means used to give them a colour different from that of the paper, are called by the name of sympathetic Inks.

1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. (at cited word) Composition of common black Ink. Preparation of Red Ink from Vermilion.

1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 743 The expressed juice of the petals is a good blue ink.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) ‘Chemical Indelible Ink’, sold for the purpose of marking linen.

1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 114 A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth was so extreme.

1855 T. Carlyle Prinzenraub in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) VII. 158 Battles..fought only by ink.

1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 151 The whole sky on one side of the heavens was as black as ink.

1899 Brit. Printer XII. 62 When..type here and there refuses to take ink.

figurative and in extended use.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlviij Y^t no person beyng embrued or spotted w^t y^e ynke of y^e abhominable crime, shoulde escape y^e peyne.1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) iv. 198 As if, like aqua fortis, it would take out the ink which sin and the devil have cast on their souls in a moment.1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 129 The lake was a pool of ink.

b. The black inky liquid secreted by the cuttlefish and allied cephalopods, and stored in a sac or bladder, from which it is ejected at will so as to cloud the water and assist the animal in its escape from danger.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > member of > ink-bag > ink

inka1586

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xvii. sig. L1 The fishe called Sepia, which being in the nette castes a blacke inke about it selfe, that in the darkenesse thereof it may escape.

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. C^v They are the very Spawnes of the fish Sæpia,..where the streame is cleere,..they vomit vp yncke to trouble the waters.

1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. v. 62 He deals like the fish Sepia, and casteth out a great deal of black inke before the eyes of the Reader, that so hee may escape without observation.

1815 W. Prout in Ann. Philos. 5 417 (heading) On the Colouring Matter, or Ink, ejected by the Cuttle Fish.

1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §880 A very singular secreting organ, which, in the dibranchiate Cephalopods, produces an abundance of a black liquor, commonly termed its ink.

1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 82 A black liquid known as the Ink of the Cuttlefish..The pigment..known as Roman Sepia, is obtained from this black liquid.

Compounds

C1.

a. General attributive.

ink-drop n.

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a1847 E. Cook Room of Household ii The ink-drop may fall.

ink-fever n. Apparently an isolated use.

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1922 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 355 This long-drawn-out battle over my narrative of the campaigns of Feisal has put an ink fever into me. I find myself always going about trying to fit words to the sights & sounds in the world outside me.

ink-line n.

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1731 W. Halfpenny Perspective made Easy 24 Then draw the Ink Lines..which represents the Top of the Wall.

ink-stain n.

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1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) Lemon-juice, and the juice of sorrel, will also remove ink-stains.

b. Objective.

(a)

ink-carrying adj.

ink-distributing adj.

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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1188/1 The endwise motion of the ink-distributing rollers.

ink-dropping adj.

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1613 W. Drummond Teares Death Meliades The deadly Cypresse, and inke-dropping Firres, Your Palmes and Mirtles tune.

ink-wasting adj.

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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2^v All, that haue had the euill lucke to reade this incke-wasting toy of mine.

(b)

ink-maker n.

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1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Inchiostraro,..an inke-maker.

1723 B. Mandeville Ess. Charity in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 333 The Ink-makers..would..offer to choak me with Astringents, or drown me in the black Liquor.

1805 Mod. London 443 Inkmakers, stationers, papermakers.

c. Instrumental.

ink-blurred adj.

ink-spotted adj.

ink-stained adj.

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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > by ink

inky1727

be-inked1853

ink-stained1857

1857 J. Eadie Life J. Kitto xii. 415 An inkstained recluse.

ink-written adj.

d. Similative.

(a)

ink-black adj.

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1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C8 What Accademick starued Satyrist..with inke black fist would tosse each muck-heap for som outcast scraps?

1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 298 Looking blankly at a lake of ink-black slime.

ink-blue adj.

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1963 Times 16 Feb. 11/6 Baby ink-blue mussel shells arranged in flower-like clusters with sprays of dried seaweeds in between.

1971 Guardian 14 Dec. 9/2 In black, tan, bottle green, honey, and ink blue.

ink-coloured adj.

ink-purple adj.

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1935 E. Bowen House in Paris ii. vii. 159 Toppling ink-purple clouds.

(b)

ink-like adj.

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1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 73 With Inke-like Rheume the dull Mists drouzie vapours Quench their home-Fiers.

1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 49 Whose waters..ink-like, ebon,..flow.

(c)

ink-shine v. Apparently an isolated use.

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1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 211 The jet beads of her mantilla inkshining in the sun.

e. (In Chinese calligraphy, etc.)

ink-brush n.

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1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization v. 164 A traditional Chinese painter works with a definite theory about the use of the ink~brush.

ink-painting n.

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1925 R. Fry Chinese Art 9 Many ink-paintings ascribed to him [sc. Li Lung-mien] are extant, and a few may be originals.

1925 R. Fry Chinese Art Pl. 9 (caption) Ink painting on silk.

1954 Oxf. Junior Encycl. XII. 225/1 The greatest master of ink-painting [in Japan] was Sesshū (1420–1506).

ink-sketch n.

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1906 S. W. Bushell Chinese Art II. xiii. 136 She [sc. the Lady Kuan] was a clever painter of flowers and her rapid ink sketches of peonies, prunus-flowers and orchids were admirable.

1910 Brit. Mus. Guide Exhib. Chinese & Japanese Paintings in Print & Drawing Gallery 32 But the typical painting of the [Ashikaga] period was the ink-sketch of landscape, bird or flower.

ink-squeeze n.

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1935 Burlington Mag. Oct. 185/2 The illustrations are all line-blocks made from ‘rubbings’ (or, more correctly, ‘ink squeezes’).

ink-stick n.

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1926 F. B. Wiborg Printing Ink ii. 50 The Chinese never keep liquid ink... Many ink-sticks are provided with a rounded notch at the lower end to secure a firmer hold for the finger, while the upper part to be rubbed is rounded.

1935 C. Yee Chinese Eye viii. 199 A certain Li T'ing-Kuei of the ‘Five dynasties’ period supplied all the leading calligraphists with ink-sticks, and he compounded them from ten parts of pine-smoke to three of powdered jade and one of gum.

1939 Burlington Mag. Jan. 47/1 Inksticks and experience in making inks.

ink-study n.

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1936 Burlington Mag. Nov. 236/1 Chinese ink-studies.

C2. In the names of vessels or receptacles for holding writing or printing ink. Also inkhorn n., inkpot n., inkstand n., ink-standish n.

ink-bottle n.

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1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 333 Hoe boye, reache me that inke-bottell.

1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 77. ⁋9 He writes a Letter, and flings the Sand into the Ink-bottle; he writes a second, and mistakes the Superscription.

1875 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends 227 He dipped a large pen into his inkbottle.

ink-box n.

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1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 67 His then Secretarie..,pour'd the Ink-box all over the Writings.

1851 Illustr. Exhib. 489 The ductor-roller forms one side of an ink-box, from which, as it revolves, it withdraws a portion of ink.

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ink-can n.

ink-case n.

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1663 R. Boyle Exper. & Consid. Colours ii. Exp. ix I have found pens blacked..when I had a while carried them about me in a silver ink-case.

ink-cup n.

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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1188/2 Ink-well, an ink-cup adapted to occupy a hole in a desk.

ink-dish n.

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1886 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto ii. xiii. 221 Give me the ink-dish.

ink-glass n.

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1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions 103 If the late change of Ink horns, into Ink glasses, had but taught us how frail and brittle we all are.

1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. viii. 190 Emptying the ink-glass, (which you mistook for the sand-glass,) upon a paper which you have just written out fairly.

ink-holder n.

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1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 194 I saw him Sodder on bottoms to Leaden-stands, or Ink-holders.

1855 T. Carlyle Prinzenraub 100 Standing in Luther's room, with Luther's poor old oaken table, oaken inkholder, still there.

ink-reservoir n.

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1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1187/2 The ink-reservoir of a printing-press from which the ink is taken by an ink-roller.

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 73 The ink-reservoir should never be too full, otherwise the apparatus is apt to become clogged with ink.

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ink-tin n.

C3. Special combinations.

ink-bag n. the bladder-shaped sac in the cuttlefish and related animals containing the ‘ink’: see b above.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > member of > ink-bag

ink-bag1835

ink-gland1851

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 536 The ink-bag probably attains its largest proportional size in the genus Sepiola.

1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man ix. 224 The Belemnite..had ink-bags provided with that wonderfully divided pigment, inimitable by art.

ink-ball n. (a) = ball n.¹ 18; (b) a kind of oak-gall employed in the manufacture of ink.

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society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > inking ball

pumping ball1587

ball1611

pump-ball1611

pumpet1611

pelt1683

pelt balla1828

dauber1850

dabber1854

dab1861

tampion1877

tampon1877

ink-ball1884

1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) 385 The Printer's Ink Ball, which is now very seldom used, consists of a semi-globular pad, coated with composition.

1888 Cent. Mag. 36 765 The juice of poke-berries, compounded with vinegar, or the distillation of a vegetable product known as ‘ink balls’, usurped the place of ink.

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ink-bench n. the inking-table of a printing machine (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).

ink-block n. in printing, a block or table on which the ink is spread, to be taken up by the rollers or ink-balls.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-block, -slab, or -table

ink-block1688

ink-table1825

slab1859

ink-slab1890

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. 56 Brayer, is a round wooden Rubber..used in the Inke-block to Bray and Rub Inke.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Printing The Ink is applied upon the Forms by Balls,..one of these the Press-man takes in each Hand, and applying them on the Ink-block, to charge 'em with Ink, he..smears over the Form by beating or dabbing 'em.

1790 Nicholson Specif. Patent O is a cylinder faced with leather and lying across an ink-block.

1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing at Ink Block The introduction of rollers has superseded the use of the ink block, for which has been substituted an inking apparatus.

ink-blot n. a blot of ink; also figurative, and attributive, esp. in ink-blot test n.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > spot of ink

ink-blot1928

a1500 ? Lydgate Lavenders 18 Wasshe withe wyne the fervente ynkes blote.]

1928 J. J. B. Morgan Psychol. Abnormal People iv. 145 The Rorschach test is a special development of the ink-blot test. The ordinary ink-blot test has not yielded very significant results heretofore. Rorschach, some years ago, developed a series of ink~blots which have been more successful than those used previously.

1931 Psychol. Abstr. V. 268 An explanation of the use of the Rorschach ink-blot test as a measure of intelligence.

1940 R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 12) v. 151 A class of tests sometimes called the ‘fantasy tests’... Most used is the inkblot... A variety of things can be seen in such a blot.

1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 13 The interpretation given ink-blots by criminals reveals their unconscious motivations.

1965 Sun 20 May 2/2 American military planners are weighing up an ‘inkblot’ strategy to clear South Vietnam of Communist guerillas.

1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage i. 28 Ink Blots and Dribbled Paint. These methods are not as haphazard as they would at first seem as the hand is guided to a great extent by one's intuitive sense of design.

1968 D. Rapaport et al. Diagn. Psychol. Testing (rev. ed.) ix. 272 From the perceptual point of view it appears that the Rorschach inkblots are ‘unstructured’ perceptual raw material.

ink-blot test n. Psychology a projective test in which the subject's imaginative reactions to a random ink-blot shape are analysed and used as a guide to his personality; also elliptical as ink-blot.

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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > testing of personality > [noun] > projective test > Rorschach test

Rorschach test1927

ink-blot test1972

1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 303 Human movement responses..may be interpreted as an index of social approach during the administration of an inkblot test.

ink-brayer n. = brayer n.²

ink-cap n. a fungus of the genus Coprinus.

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the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > ink-cap

ink-cap1887

inky cap1923

1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 553 Ink~cap (species of Coprinus).

1927 H. Gwynne-Vaughan & B. F. Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi 301 The genus Coprinus, the ink cap, is one of the commonest forms with black spores.

1963 M. Lange & F. B. Hora Collins Guide Mushrooms & Toadstools 136 Coprinus—‘Ink caps’. Characterised in almost all species by the gradual ‘auto-digestion’ of the gills, and sometimes the cap, into a black ink-like fluid.

ink-cylinder n. an inking cylinder or roller in a printing machine.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-roller

roller1662

composition roller1825

ink-roller1825

rider1878

waver1882

inker1884

ink-cylinder1894

1894 Brit. Printer VII. 346 Most rollers in the better machines are driven by the friction of the ink cylinder.

† ink-dabbler n. Obsolete a scribbler.

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer

scribblera1556

paper-blurrera1586

by-writer1587

feather-driver1593

squitter-book1594

paper-stainer1596

blur-paper1603

spoil-paper1610

penster1611

inkhorn matea1616

squitter-wit1615

ink-dabbler1616

squitter-pulpa1640

quill-driver1700

scribble-scrabble1707

authorling1752

writerling1802

inkhorn varlet1820

toe-writer1845

pen-driver1854

anonymuncule1859

ink-jerker1865

pen-pusher1875

pseudonymuncle1875

ink-spiller1881

ink-slinger1887

blotter-

1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) v. v, in Wks. I. 70 These paper-pedlers! these inke-dablers!

ink disease n. a fungal disease caused by species of Phytophthora, esp. P. cambivora, affecting chestnut and occasionally other trees, making the surface of their roots and sometimes trunks a darker colour.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees

heart rot1808

white rot1828

sap-rot1838

red rot1847

conk1851

soft rot1886

pine blister1889

silver-leaf1890

leaf shedding1891

pine rust1893

leaf cast1894

partridge-wood1894

larch blister1895

needle-cast1895

sooty mould1901

white pine blister rust1909

larch needle cast1921

coral-spot1923

ink disease1923

pocket rot1926

wood rot1926

Dutch elm disease1927

oak wilt1942

ash dieback1957

1923 Rev. Appl. Mycol. II. 188 The so-called ‘ink’ disease of chestnuts constitutes a serious damper to French sylviculture.

1932 Forestry 6 182 The fungus causing the ink disease of chestnut, has a very wide distribution.

1968 F. G. Browne Pests & Dis. Forest Plantation Trees ii. 915 It [sc. Phytophthora cambivora] is one of the pathogens..associated with ink disease, a severe malady of Castanea.

† ink-divine n. Obsolete (see quot.).

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society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > [noun] > strict adherence to > person

scripturer?1550

Scripturary1563

Scripturian1565

ink-divine1604

scripturist1604

textual1613

text-man1619

textualist1629

Scripturarian1652

scripturalist?1702

textuary1728

Bible-bigot1766

Bible-moth1789

bibliolatrist1826

Biblist1836

Biblicist1837

gymnobiblist1844

bibliolater1847

1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea in Wks. (1620) I. 533 It is no matter, though the papists continue to call vs in scorne inke-diuines, because of our close adhering to the holy text.

ink-duct n. (a) the duct of a cephalopod's ink-bag; (b) = ink-trough n.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink reservoir

colour box1807

ink-trough1818

ink-duct1835

ink-fountain1875

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 530/1 Delicate fasciculi..intercept the termination of the..ink-duct.

1883 W. Blades in Printers' Reg. 125/2 The ink-duct at the end, with its roller supplying a small but regular quantity of ink at each revolution.

ink-eraser n. a piece of prepared caoutchouc, or similar substance, used to erase writing in ink or blots.

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the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > device for erasing > rubber

rubber1779

Indian rubber?1780

India rubber1784

ink-eraser1881

bungee1928

1881 Daily News 1 Mar. 5/1 However long you may boil the tender parts of camel, the plat..is no better than so much ink-eraser.

ink-feed n. the duct which carries the ink to the nib of a fountain pen; also, the feeding of ink through this duct.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > fountain pen > part of

ink-feed1907

feed1957

1907 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 11/1 The Patent Spoon-Feed has successfully overcome the ink-feed difficulty.

1935 Discovery Jan. 15/2 He must decide whether to alter the colour of the ink, its consistency, the rate of ink-feed.

ink-fish n. a cuttlefish or squid.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > member of

squid1613

ink-fish1693

squid fish1726

decapod1835

1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 855 The Sleave or Ink-fish, Lolligo.

1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 97 The Ink-fish, or Cuttle-fish..when in danger of being taken, it emits a black liquor like ink out of it's mouth.

ink-fountain n. = ink-trough n.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink reservoir

colour box1807

ink-trough1818

ink-duct1835

ink-fountain1875

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1798/2 The ink-fountain and ink-distributing apparatus.

ink-gland n. = ink-bag n.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > member of > ink-bag

ink-bag1835

ink-gland1851

1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 63 Ink-gland always present.

ink-jerker n. U.S. = ink-slinger n.

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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reckless writer

ink-jerker1865

ink-spiller1881

ink-slinger1887

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer

scribblera1556

paper-blurrera1586

by-writer1587

feather-driver1593

squitter-book1594

paper-stainer1596

blur-paper1603

spoil-paper1610

penster1611

inkhorn matea1616

squitter-wit1615

ink-dabbler1616

squitter-pulpa1640

quill-driver1700

scribble-scrabble1707

authorling1752

writerling1802

inkhorn varlet1820

toe-writer1845

pen-driver1854

anonymuncule1859

ink-jerker1865

pen-pusher1875

pseudonymuncle1875

ink-spiller1881

ink-slinger1887

blotter-

1865 Harper's Mag. May 683/2 This rattle-brained scribbler, this miserable ink-jerker.

ink-knife n. a blade for controlling the flow of ink from an ink-fountain, or for pressing down the ink.

† ink-man n. Obsolete the employee in a printing-office who prepares the ink for use.

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society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > preparer of ink

ink-man1598

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Inchiostraro, an inke-man, an inke-maker.

1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lv. 522 The Printer seemes to muster a great many vnder him; the Founder, Grauer, Cutter, Inke-man, Paper-man, Corrector, Compositor, Presse-men, and others.

ink-mirror n. a surface of ink used in clairvoyance in place of a crystal.

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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > crystal-gazing > [noun] > object used in

crystal stonea1387

crystala1400

crystal ball?a1513

prospective glassa1584

prospective stonea1584

show-stone1583

prospective1604

seeing-stone1680

ink-mirror1905

1905 E. F. Benson Image in Sand ii Abdul had..tried him with the simple experiment of the ink~mirror, and found him extraordinarily sensitive.

ink-mushroom n. a mushroom of the genus Coprinus.

ink-nut n. = myrobalan n.

ink-pad n. an inking-pad.

ink-pencil n. a pencil filled with a composition possessing some of the qualities of ink.

ink-plant n. the European shrub Coriaria myrtifolia, or New Zealand species C. thymifolia.

ink-powder n. the powdered ingredients of ink.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > ink powder

ink-powder1690

1690 London Gaz. No. 2534/4 Holman's London Ink-Powder,..being the best Ingredients for making the strongest and best black Writing Ink.

1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) Ink powder..is nothing else than the substances employed in the composition of common ink, pounded and pulverised.

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ink-printing n. the process of making photographic prints in common ink.

ink-roller n. an inking-roller.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-roller

roller1662

composition roller1825

ink-roller1825

rider1878

waver1882

inker1884

ink-cylinder1894

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 307 It..remains for a short period in contact with the surface of the ink-roller..thereby receiving a portion of ink upon its surface.

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 181 A series of distributing ink-rollers.

ink-root n. the root of the American sea-lavender or marsh-rosemary ( Statice Limonium).

ink-sac n. = ink-bag n.

ink-saucer n. a dark mark (beneath the eye).

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1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 3 He had great black eyes, with ink-saucers under them.

ink-slab n. (a) the slate or stone slab of an ink-table; (b) a container for ink; spec. in the Far East, a slab on which ink is mixed ready for writing.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > containers for ink

inkhorn1382

inkpot1553

ink-well1875

dipping-well1889

ink-slab1890

ink cartridge1955

society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-block, -slab, or -table

ink-block1688

ink-table1825

slab1859

ink-slab1890

1890 C. T. Jacobi Printing 288/2 Ink slab, the table on which ink is distributed, either at press or machine.

1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 210/2 Slate ink slabs... 5 inch square with heavy glass cover.

1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 354/2 A second..roller conveys the ink from this drum to the distributing table or ink slab.

1963 W. C. Kenneison & A. J. B. Spilman Dict. Printing 100 Ink slab, that part of certain printing presses, consisting of a large, flat, steel bed, from which the distributing rollers..take ink.

1969 Korean Folklore & Classics I. 23 He..picked up his teacher's ink-slab.

ink-slice n. a broad knife or paddle used for handling printer's ink.

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society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > ink-knife

slice1683

ink-slice1884

1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) 384 Where very large quantities of ink are required to be spread out on the table, an ink slice is sometimes used.

ink-slinger n. originally U.S. a contemptuous appellation for a professional writer, esp. a reckless writer in the newspaper press.

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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reckless writer

ink-jerker1865

ink-spiller1881

ink-slinger1887

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer

scribblera1556

paper-blurrera1586

by-writer1587

feather-driver1593

squitter-book1594

paper-stainer1596

blur-paper1603

spoil-paper1610

penster1611

inkhorn matea1616

squitter-wit1615

ink-dabbler1616

squitter-pulpa1640

quill-driver1700

scribble-scrabble1707

authorling1752

writerling1802

inkhorn varlet1820

toe-writer1845

pen-driver1854

anonymuncule1859

ink-jerker1865

pen-pusher1875

pseudonymuncle1875

ink-spiller1881

ink-slinger1887

blotter-

1887 W. Douglas Duelling Days in Army 132 Every one on the Paris press seems ready..to fight any other ink-slinger on the slightest provocation.

1896 Academy 7 Nov. 347/2 Only great critics, or impertinent ink slingers, would attempt to appraise their value.

ink-slinging n.

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society > communication > journalism > [noun] > other specific types or styles of journalism

penny-a-lining1842

publicism1846

New Journalism1872

investigative reporting1890

ink-slinging1894

yellowism1897

chip paper1935

Afghanistanism1948

telejournalism1959

parajournalism1965

smear journalism1967

gonzo1972

plutography1985

1894 Daily News 2 May 6/3 High~bred women who were not given to what modern Americans call ‘ink-slinging’.

1896 Spectator 7 Nov. 619 There is..no picturesque ink-slinging, as the happy American phrase goes.

ink-spiller n. U.S. = ink-slinger n.

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society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reckless writer

ink-jerker1865

ink-spiller1881

ink-slinger1887

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer

scribblera1556

paper-blurrera1586

by-writer1587

feather-driver1593

squitter-book1594

paper-stainer1596

blur-paper1603

spoil-paper1610

penster1611

inkhorn matea1616

squitter-wit1615

ink-dabbler1616

squitter-pulpa1640

quill-driver1700

scribble-scrabble1707

authorling1752

writerling1802

inkhorn varlet1820

toe-writer1845

pen-driver1854

anonymuncule1859

ink-jerker1865

pen-pusher1875

pseudonymuncle1875

ink-spiller1881

ink-slinger1887

blotter-

1881 Punch 10 Sept. 110/2 To think people ain't got more savvy than what these inkspillers enjoy.

ink-spot n. (a) a stain of ink; (b) a dark spot on the skin.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark

spotOE

markOE

tachea1400

macula?a1425

ruby1542

plotch1548

flea-biting1552

fleck1598

blanch1608

staina1616

naeve1619

neve1624

dark1637

sunspot1651

pip1676

liver spot1684

beauty spot1795

heat-spot1822

spilus1822

ink-spot1839

punctation1848

punctuation1848

macule1864

soldier's spots1874

pock1894

mouche1959

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot > of ink

ink-spot1839

1839 Mag. Domest. Econ. 4 214 Ink-spots and other stains on silk.

1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 223 If a general erythema [in small-pox] be..accompanied by isolated ink spots it will certainly be fatal.

ink-stone n. (a) native copperas or iron-sulphate, used in making ink; (b) a slab of stone or slate on which Indian ink is prepared for use by rubbing.

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1834 N. F. Moore Anc. Mineral. 95 Of the melanteria, or ink stone, Dioscorides remarks that ‘some have taken it to be the same with sory’.

1938 Burlington Mag. Aug. 90/2 The inkslabs and inkstones, so sought after by collectors.

ink-surface n. a surface serving as an ink-table.

ink-table n. in a printing-press, the table or slab on which the ink is distributed by the roller.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-block, -slab, or -table

ink-block1688

ink-table1825

slab1859

ink-slab1890

1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 307 The reciprocating motion of the carriage causes the ink-table..to receive ink upon its surface from the elastic roller.

1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) 467 As an ink-table for colour work there is nothing equal to white marble.

1892 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 4) 12 In ‘machines’..the ink table always adjoins the type bed, and the rollers are passed over it and on to the type mechanically.

ink-tippler n. one who is constantly using ink, a writer.Apparently an isolated use.

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1842 C. G. F. Gore Fascination 120 Do I look like an old rat that has spent its days in gnawing the classics?.. Am I an ink tippler? a college sizar?

ink-trough n. the reservoir containing the ink in a printing machine.

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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink reservoir

colour box1807

ink-trough1818

ink-duct1835

ink-fountain1875

1818 E. Cowper in Savage Dict. Print. (1841) at Inking Apparatus The ink trough is fixed at one edge of the table.

1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 181 An ink-trough from which the roller..is lifted at every revolution.

ink-value n. the equivalent in a black-and-white print of a colour in a painting.

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1894 Athenæum 22 Dec. 867/1 The rendering of what are called the ink values of Mr. Beardsley's designs..must have been a matter of frequent difficulty.

ink-wash n. Japanese Painting (see wash n. 4b).

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1936 Burlington Mag. Oct. 162/2 The spirited ink-wash technique.

ink weed n. Australian and New Zealand a perennial herb of the genus Phytolacca, which bears black berries containing a reddish juice (= poke n.⁴ 1).

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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Phytolaccaceae (poke-weed and allies) > [noun]

redweed1624

poke1687

phytolacca1730

pork physic1733

pokeweed1751

pokeberry1754

rivina1754

guinea-hen weed1836

hoop-withe1847

pocan1858

strong man's weed1864

ink weed1913

1906 T. F. Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Flora 1085 Phytolacca octandra... Ink-plant; Poke-weed.]

1913 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 7 369 Inkweed, or pokeweed (Phytolacca octandra), is a poisonous plant.

1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Nov. 28/4 Inkweed is hard to burn or eradicate if it gets a hold.

1962 N. C. W. Beadle et al. Handbk. Vasc. Plants Sydney Distr. 160 Weed of waste ground. Introd. from Trop. Amer. Ink Weed. P[hytolacca] octandra.

ink-well n. (see quots.).

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > containers for ink

inkhorn1382

inkpot1553

ink-well1875

dipping-well1889

ink-slab1890

ink cartridge1955

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1188/2 Ink-well, an ink-cup adapted to occupy a hole in a desk.

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 71 While it [the inking disc] just dips into the ink-well it also gently presses against the paper.

ink-wood n. the tree Hypelate paniculata, found in Southern Florida and the West Indies.

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1895 C. S. Sargent Silva N. Amer. II. 75 Exothea paniculata..Ink Wood.

ink-writer n. a telegraph instrument which records messages in ink.

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society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs

telegraph register1845

Morse1867

recorder1867

nicker1871

ink-writer1876

inker1882

ticker1883

news ticker1887

tape-machine1891

synchronograph1897

tape-ticker1904

undulator1910

reperforator1913

1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 116 Wheatstone's system of automatic telegraphy is that which is used in England..the messages are recorded on an exceedingly delicate form of direct ink-writer.

1888 T. Gray in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 119/2 The form of instrument almost universally used in Europe makes the record in ink, and hence is sometimes called the ‘ink-writer’.

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ink cartridge n. (a) = cartridge n. Additions (d); (b) any of various similar containers used in electronic typewriters, computer printers, etc.

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > containers for ink

inkhorn1382

inkpot1553

ink-well1875

dipping-well1889

ink-slab1890

ink cartridge1955

society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink reservoir > refillable container for dispensing ink

ink cartridge1955

cartridge1985

1955 Stationery Trade Rev. June 82/3 The Waterman C/F Pen... Ink always fresh. Each ink cartridge hermetically sealed with fresh Instant-Flo real ink.

1978 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 26 June 173/3 New Speedomax 165/250 Series one-pen and two-pen recorders are now available with either disposable ink cartridge or thermal inking system.

1983 Money May 194/1 Disdaining modern ink cartridges, the Diplomat has a manual plunger that siphons ink from a bottle into the reservoir.

1983 InfoWorld 21 Nov. 79/1 Atari's 1027 uses an ink cartridge instead of a ribbon.

1992 RS Components: Electronic & Electr. Products July 115/1 A replacement ink cartridge, containing a specially formulated free flowing non-clogging ink, for the Epson SQ-2500 ink jet printer.

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Cheap red wine; = red ink n. 1. slang (chiefly U.S.).

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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine

drum-winea1640

red ink1849

Gladstone (claret)1864

pinkie1897

dago red1906

pinard1917

ink1918

plonk1927

grocer's Graves1931

grocer's wine1931

nelly1941

Red Ned1941

vaaljapie1945

purple death1947

grocer's sherry1958

papsak2004

1918 R. W. Imbrie Behind Wheel of War Ambulance ix. 115 New men were apt to be confused by the talk... Wine was ‘ink’ and the cook ‘the Zouave’.

1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 301/2 Ink, wine. This use was restricted to red wine.

1938 New Yorker 12 Mar. 36/3 Wine is an aid to the hashish smoker and all the pads sell it—a cheap local ‘ink’.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 166 Here is a group of indigenous terms used to describe cheap wines: Africa speaks, bombo, Clever Mary, corrobbery water, ink, [etc.].

1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 69 Ink, cheap wine.

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inkjet n. used attributively to designate a type of printing or printer in which characters and graphics are produced by minute electromagnetically controlled jets of ink projected on to the paper (chiefly in inkjet printer, inkjet printing); (hence, in simple use) an inkjet printer.

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1973 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 230/2 Ink-jet writing..is not only nonimpact but noncontact... Dye inks are available in wide enough choice of colors to allow extremely good color reproduction when needed.

1978 Gloss. Terms Data Processing (B.S.I.) xii. 11/1 Ink jet printer, a non-impact printer in which the characters are formed by projecting a jet of ink onto paper.

1979 Sci. Amer. Apr. 120/1 Ink-jet printing is one of the new dot-matrix technologies.

1990 Managem. Computing Nov. 75/1 (caption) The two Diconix models..are battery-powered ink-jets, and lead the portable printer market.

2013 Atlantic Sept. 26/3 If you open up a modern ink-jet printer, there are practically no moving parts—just a little stepper motor that moves the head along.

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a. colloquial. Ink viewed as the medium for press or newspaper coverage on a particular subject; (hence) the coverage itself; publicity in the written media.

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1918 N. C. Smith in Postal Rec. June 166/2 Time was when quite a bit of ink was used in publishing the faces of Congressmen, postmasters, [etc.].

1921 Mixer & Server 21 June 36/2 A lot of ink was spilled about the subject of reparations. It looked from the newspapers..that we were going to have an echo of the big scrap.

1960 Stage & Television Today 17 Nov. 17/6 A lot of ink has flowed from critics..in protest against the arbitrary decisions of directors when it comes to interpreting..the intentions of the playwright.

1975 Princeton Alumni Weekly 27 May 26/3 If I see you at Reunions, you are sure to get some ink in a future column.

2014 Huffington Post (Nexis) 20 Feb. Much ink (virtual and otherwise) is spent commenting on the true meaning of that text.

b. colloquial. A tattoo, or tattoos collectively.

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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > [noun] > tattooing > tattoo

skin print1625

tattoo1777

henna tattoo1906

ink1931

tat1981

1931 Sun (Baltimore) 25 July 20/6 (heading) Ink Leads to Grave of Missing Youth.

1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Style section) c1 Excepting his face, neck, hands, and feet, every inch..is covered with ink.

1987 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 26 Feb. My old prejudice is completely gone now. A bit of ink on the arm does not change a person.

1990 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 July (Everyday Mag.) 3 e It made all the ink on Guns N' Roses look small-time.

1991 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. 3 Apr. e3/3 There's a lot of dudes in the joint that don't have any ink on them.

1997 J.-C. Miller Body Art Bk. v. 79 No conscientious ink slinger wants to tattoo someone who hasn't given their ink a lot of thought.

2004 Gazette (Colorado Springs) 29 Dec. (Northwest/Central ed.) (Slice section) 17/4 The Springs has more than 50 places to get some ink done.

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单词	ink
释义	inkn.¹ Brit. /ɪŋk/, U.S. /ɪŋk/ Forms: Middle English enke, (Middle English enk, henk), Middle English inc, Middle English, 1500s–1600s inck, Middle English–1500s ynk(e, Middle English–1600s inke, (1500s incke, 1500s–1600s yncke), Middle English– ink. Etymology: < Old French enque (11th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter; in modern French encre ) < late Latin encaustum , < Greek ἔγκαυστον the purple ink used by the Greek and Roman emperors for their signatures, < ἐγκαίειν to burn in (see encaustic adj. and n.). The Old French form retained the Greek accent, while Italian inchiostro (Old Milanese incostro, Diez) is due to the Latin stressing encau·stum, encau·strum. The word has been adopted in Bohemian as inkoust, formerly inkaust; and in Dutch as inkt* (older enkt). a. The coloured (usually black) fluid ordinarily employed in writing with a pen on paper, parchment, etc. ( writing ink), or the viscous paste used for a similar purpose in printing (printing or printer's ink).When the word is used without qualification, the ordinary black writing-fluid is commonly meant. The various kinds of ink are distinguished by their colour, as black, red, blue, gold ink, etc.; by the purpose which they serve, as copying, lithographic, marking, printing (or printer's), writing ink; by some special quality, as indelible, invisible, sympathetic ink; by the place of manufacture, as China, Indian Ink. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] inkc1250 arnementc1300 writing ink1548 magnetic ink1953 society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > ink printing ink1553 ink1569 printers' inka1631 c1250 Meid Maregrete lxi So boc is writen wid enke. a1300 Cursor Mundi 648 Es nan forsoth wit hert mai think, Ne writer nan mai write wit inc [Trin. MS. enke] Þe mikel ioy. c1390 (?c1350) Joseph of Arimathie (1871) l. 194 On vche braunche was a word of þreo maner enkes; Gold and Seluer he seis and Asur forsoþe. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 91 We how not to honor þe gospel þus, þat is to sey, þe henk, or þe parchemyn. 1480 W. Caxton Descr. Scotl. (1520) 1/2 They wolde somtyme..peynt them with ynke or with other peinture or coloure. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer i. f. cccxxv Some..peynten with colours ryche, and some with vers, as with red ynke, and some with coles and chalke. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 637 Guthenlergius,..within .xvj. yeres after did inuent the ynke which the Printers now vse. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. i. sig. A6 Deformed monsters, fowle, and blacke as inke. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 285 Such a thinne kinde of inke or vernish, that it did..darken the.. glasing colours. 1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 142 The Indians dye Skins, and make Ink with them. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Indian, or Chinese Ink, is an admirable Composition... It is not fluid like our Writing-Inks. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Printing-Ink is made of Nut-Oil or Linseed-Oil, Turpentine and a kind of Black. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) Every sort of liquor with which a person may write so that the letters do not appear till there is some particular means used to give them a colour different from that of the paper, are called by the name of sympathetic Inks. 1765 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. II. (at cited word) Composition of common black Ink. Preparation of Red Ink from Vermilion. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 743 The expressed juice of the petals is a good blue ink. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) ‘Chemical Indelible Ink’, sold for the purpose of marking linen. 1829 T. Hood Dream Eugene Aram in Gem 1 114 A sluggish water, black as ink, The depth was so extreme. 1855 T. Carlyle Prinzenraub in Crit. & Misc. Ess. (1872) VII. 158 Battles..fought only by ink. 1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 151 The whole sky on one side of the heavens was as black as ink. 1899 Brit. Printer XII. 62 When..type here and there refuses to take ink. figurative and in extended use.1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlviij Y^t no person beyng embrued or spotted w^t y^e ynke of y^e abhominable crime, shoulde escape y^e peyne.1677 A. Horneck Great Law Consideration (1704) iv. 198 As if, like aqua fortis, it would take out the ink which sin and the devil have cast on their souls in a moment.1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 129 The lake was a pool of ink. b. The black inky liquid secreted by the cuttlefish and allied cephalopods, and stored in a sac or bladder, from which it is ejected at will so as to cloud the water and assist the animal in its escape from danger. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > member of > ink-bag > ink inka1586 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xvii. sig. L1 The fishe called Sepia, which being in the nette castes a blacke inke about it selfe, that in the darkenesse thereof it may escape. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. C^v They are the very Spawnes of the fish Sæpia,..where the streame is cleere,..they vomit vp yncke to trouble the waters. 1641 ‘Smectymnuus’ Vindic. Answer Hvmble Remonstr. v. 62 He deals like the fish Sepia, and casteth out a great deal of black inke before the eyes of the Reader, that so hee may escape without observation. 1815 W. Prout in Ann. Philos. 5 417 (heading) On the Colouring Matter, or Ink, ejected by the Cuttle Fish. 1847 W. B. Carpenter Zool.: Systematic Acct. II. §880 A very singular secreting organ, which, in the dibranchiate Cephalopods, produces an abundance of a black liquor, commonly termed its ink. 1861 R. T. Hulme tr. C. H. Moquin-Tandon Elements Med. Zool. ii. iii. ii. 82 A black liquid known as the Ink of the Cuttlefish..The pigment..known as Roman Sepia, is obtained from this black liquid. Compounds C1. a. General attributive. ink-drop n. ΚΠ a1847 E. Cook Room of Household ii The ink-drop may fall. ink-fever n. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1922 T. E. Lawrence Home Lett. (1954) 355 This long-drawn-out battle over my narrative of the campaigns of Feisal has put an ink fever into me. I find myself always going about trying to fit words to the sights & sounds in the world outside me. ink-line n. ΚΠ 1731 W. Halfpenny Perspective made Easy 24 Then draw the Ink Lines..which represents the Top of the Wall. ink-stain n. ΚΠ 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) Lemon-juice, and the juice of sorrel, will also remove ink-stains. b. Objective. (a) ink-carrying adj. ink-distributing adj. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1188/1 The endwise motion of the ink-distributing rollers. ink-dropping adj. ΚΠ 1613 W. Drummond Teares Death Meliades The deadly Cypresse, and inke-dropping Firres, Your Palmes and Mirtles tune. ink-wasting adj. ΚΠ a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. L2^v All, that haue had the euill lucke to reade this incke-wasting toy of mine. (b) ink-maker n. ΚΠ 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Inchiostraro,..an inke-maker. 1723 B. Mandeville Ess. Charity in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 333 The Ink-makers..would..offer to choak me with Astringents, or drown me in the black Liquor. 1805 Mod. London 443 Inkmakers, stationers, papermakers. c. Instrumental. ink-blurred adj. ink-spotted adj. ink-stained adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > by ink inky1727 be-inked1853 ink-stained1857 1857 J. Eadie Life J. Kitto xii. 415 An inkstained recluse. ink-written adj. d. Similative. (a) ink-black adj. ΚΠ 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. iii. sig. C8 What Accademick starued Satyrist..with inke black fist would tosse each muck-heap for som outcast scraps? 1897 M. Kingsley Trav. W. Afr. 298 Looking blankly at a lake of ink-black slime. ink-blue adj. ΚΠ 1963 Times 16 Feb. 11/6 Baby ink-blue mussel shells arranged in flower-like clusters with sprays of dried seaweeds in between. 1971 Guardian 14 Dec. 9/2 In black, tan, bottle green, honey, and ink blue. ink-coloured adj. ink-purple adj. ΚΠ 1935 E. Bowen House in Paris ii. vii. 159 Toppling ink-purple clouds. (b) ink-like adj. ΚΠ 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iii. 73 With Inke-like Rheume the dull Mists drouzie vapours Quench their home-Fiers. 1933 W. de la Mare Fleeting & Other Poems 49 Whose waters..ink-like, ebon,..flow. (c) ink-shine v. Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. x. [Wandering Rocks] 211 The jet beads of her mantilla inkshining in the sun. e. (In Chinese calligraphy, etc.) ink-brush n. ΚΠ 1951 R. Firth Elements Social Organization v. 164 A traditional Chinese painter works with a definite theory about the use of the ink~brush. ink-painting n. ΚΠ 1925 R. Fry Chinese Art 9 Many ink-paintings ascribed to him [sc. Li Lung-mien] are extant, and a few may be originals. 1925 R. Fry Chinese Art Pl. 9 (caption) Ink painting on silk. 1954 Oxf. Junior Encycl. XII. 225/1 The greatest master of ink-painting [in Japan] was Sesshū (1420–1506). ink-sketch n. ΚΠ 1906 S. W. Bushell Chinese Art II. xiii. 136 She [sc. the Lady Kuan] was a clever painter of flowers and her rapid ink sketches of peonies, prunus-flowers and orchids were admirable. 1910 Brit. Mus. Guide Exhib. Chinese & Japanese Paintings in Print & Drawing Gallery 32 But the typical painting of the [Ashikaga] period was the ink-sketch of landscape, bird or flower. ink-squeeze n. ΚΠ 1935 Burlington Mag. Oct. 185/2 The illustrations are all line-blocks made from ‘rubbings’ (or, more correctly, ‘ink squeezes’). ink-stick n. ΚΠ 1926 F. B. Wiborg Printing Ink ii. 50 The Chinese never keep liquid ink... Many ink-sticks are provided with a rounded notch at the lower end to secure a firmer hold for the finger, while the upper part to be rubbed is rounded. 1935 C. Yee Chinese Eye viii. 199 A certain Li T'ing-Kuei of the ‘Five dynasties’ period supplied all the leading calligraphists with ink-sticks, and he compounded them from ten parts of pine-smoke to three of powdered jade and one of gum. 1939 Burlington Mag. Jan. 47/1 Inksticks and experience in making inks. ink-study n. ΚΠ 1936 Burlington Mag. Nov. 236/1 Chinese ink-studies. C2. In the names of vessels or receptacles for holding writing or printing ink. Also inkhorn n., inkpot n., inkstand n., ink-standish n. ink-bottle n. ΚΠ 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 333 Hoe boye, reache me that inke-bottell. 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 77. ⁋9 He writes a Letter, and flings the Sand into the Ink-bottle; he writes a second, and mistakes the Superscription. 1875 ‘A. R. Hope’ My Schoolboy Friends 227 He dipped a large pen into his inkbottle. ink-box n. ΚΠ 1640 J. Howell Δενδρολογια 67 His then Secretarie..,pour'd the Ink-box all over the Writings. 1851 Illustr. Exhib. 489 The ductor-roller forms one side of an ink-box, from which, as it revolves, it withdraws a portion of ink. Categories » ink-can n. ink-case n. ΚΠ 1663 R. Boyle Exper. & Consid. Colours ii. Exp. ix I have found pens blacked..when I had a while carried them about me in a silver ink-case. ink-cup n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1188/2 Ink-well, an ink-cup adapted to occupy a hole in a desk. ink-dish n. ΚΠ 1886 R. L. Stevenson Prince Otto ii. xiii. 221 Give me the ink-dish. ink-glass n. ΚΠ 1680 V. Alsop Mischief Impositions 103 If the late change of Ink horns, into Ink glasses, had but taught us how frail and brittle we all are. 1806 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life I. viii. 190 Emptying the ink-glass, (which you mistook for the sand-glass,) upon a paper which you have just written out fairly. ink-holder n. ΚΠ 1703 R. Neve City & Countrey Purchaser 194 I saw him Sodder on bottoms to Leaden-stands, or Ink-holders. 1855 T. Carlyle Prinzenraub 100 Standing in Luther's room, with Luther's poor old oaken table, oaken inkholder, still there. ink-reservoir n. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1187/2 The ink-reservoir of a printing-press from which the ink is taken by an ink-roller. 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 73 The ink-reservoir should never be too full, otherwise the apparatus is apt to become clogged with ink. Categories » ink-tin n. C3. Special combinations. ink-bag n. the bladder-shaped sac in the cuttlefish and related animals containing the ‘ink’: see b above. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > member of > ink-bag ink-bag1835 ink-gland1851 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 536 The ink-bag probably attains its largest proportional size in the genus Sepiola. 1873 J. W. Dawson Story Earth & Man ix. 224 The Belemnite..had ink-bags provided with that wonderfully divided pigment, inimitable by art. ink-ball n. (a) = ball n.¹ 18; (b) a kind of oak-gall employed in the manufacture of ink. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > inking ball pumping ball1587 ball1611 pump-ball1611 pumpet1611 pelt1683 pelt balla1828 dauber1850 dabber1854 dab1861 tampion1877 tampon1877 ink-ball1884 1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) 385 The Printer's Ink Ball, which is now very seldom used, consists of a semi-globular pad, coated with composition. 1888 Cent. Mag. 36 765 The juice of poke-berries, compounded with vinegar, or the distillation of a vegetable product known as ‘ink balls’, usurped the place of ink. Categories » ink-bench n. the inking-table of a printing machine (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). ink-block n. in printing, a block or table on which the ink is spread, to be taken up by the rollers or ink-balls. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-block, -slab, or -table ink-block1688 ink-table1825 slab1859 ink-slab1890 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. iii. 56 Brayer, is a round wooden Rubber..used in the Inke-block to Bray and Rub Inke. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Printing The Ink is applied upon the Forms by Balls,..one of these the Press-man takes in each Hand, and applying them on the Ink-block, to charge 'em with Ink, he..smears over the Form by beating or dabbing 'em. 1790 Nicholson Specif. Patent O is a cylinder faced with leather and lying across an ink-block. 1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing at Ink Block The introduction of rollers has superseded the use of the ink block, for which has been substituted an inking apparatus. ink-blot n. a blot of ink; also figurative, and attributive, esp. in ink-blot test n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > spot of ink ink-blot1928 a1500 ? Lydgate Lavenders 18 Wasshe withe wyne the fervente ynkes blote.] 1928 J. J. B. Morgan Psychol. Abnormal People iv. 145 The Rorschach test is a special development of the ink-blot test. The ordinary ink-blot test has not yielded very significant results heretofore. Rorschach, some years ago, developed a series of ink~blots which have been more successful than those used previously. 1931 Psychol. Abstr. V. 268 An explanation of the use of the Rorschach ink-blot test as a measure of intelligence. 1940 R. S. Woodworth Psychol. (ed. 12) v. 151 A class of tests sometimes called the ‘fantasy tests’... Most used is the inkblot... A variety of things can be seen in such a blot. 1955 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. No. 24. 13 The interpretation given ink-blots by criminals reveals their unconscious motivations. 1965 Sun 20 May 2/2 American military planners are weighing up an ‘inkblot’ strategy to clear South Vietnam of Communist guerillas. 1967 E. Short Embroidery & Fabric Collage i. 28 Ink Blots and Dribbled Paint. These methods are not as haphazard as they would at first seem as the hand is guided to a great extent by one's intuitive sense of design. 1968 D. Rapaport et al. Diagn. Psychol. Testing (rev. ed.) ix. 272 From the perceptual point of view it appears that the Rorschach inkblots are ‘unstructured’ perceptual raw material. ink-blot test n. Psychology a projective test in which the subject's imaginative reactions to a random ink-blot shape are analysed and used as a guide to his personality; also elliptical as ink-blot. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of personality > testing of personality > [noun] > projective test > Rorschach test Rorschach test1927 ink-blot test1972 1972 Jrnl. Social Psychol. 88 303 Human movement responses..may be interpreted as an index of social approach during the administration of an inkblot test. ink-brayer n. = brayer n.² ink-cap n. a fungus of the genus Coprinus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > fungi > [noun] > ink-cap ink-cap1887 inky cap1923 1887 Amer. Naturalist 21 553 Ink~cap (species of Coprinus). 1927 H. Gwynne-Vaughan & B. F. Barnes Struct. & Devel. Fungi 301 The genus Coprinus, the ink cap, is one of the commonest forms with black spores. 1963 M. Lange & F. B. Hora Collins Guide Mushrooms & Toadstools 136 Coprinus—‘Ink caps’. Characterised in almost all species by the gradual ‘auto-digestion’ of the gills, and sometimes the cap, into a black ink-like fluid. ink-cylinder n. an inking cylinder or roller in a printing machine. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-roller roller1662 composition roller1825 ink-roller1825 rider1878 waver1882 inker1884 ink-cylinder1894 1894 Brit. Printer VII. 346 Most rollers in the better machines are driven by the friction of the ink cylinder. † ink-dabbler n. Obsolete a scribbler. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer scribblera1556 paper-blurrera1586 by-writer1587 feather-driver1593 squitter-book1594 paper-stainer1596 blur-paper1603 spoil-paper1610 penster1611 inkhorn matea1616 squitter-wit1615 ink-dabbler1616 squitter-pulpa1640 quill-driver1700 scribble-scrabble1707 authorling1752 writerling1802 inkhorn varlet1820 toe-writer1845 pen-driver1854 anonymuncule1859 ink-jerker1865 pen-pusher1875 pseudonymuncle1875 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 blotter- 1616 B. Jonson Every Man in his Humor (rev. ed.) v. v, in Wks. I. 70 These paper-pedlers! these inke-dablers! ink disease n. a fungal disease caused by species of Phytophthora, esp. P. cambivora, affecting chestnut and occasionally other trees, making the surface of their roots and sometimes trunks a darker colour. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with trees heart rot1808 white rot1828 sap-rot1838 red rot1847 conk1851 soft rot1886 pine blister1889 silver-leaf1890 leaf shedding1891 pine rust1893 leaf cast1894 partridge-wood1894 larch blister1895 needle-cast1895 sooty mould1901 white pine blister rust1909 larch needle cast1921 coral-spot1923 ink disease1923 pocket rot1926 wood rot1926 Dutch elm disease1927 oak wilt1942 ash dieback1957 1923 Rev. Appl. Mycol. II. 188 The so-called ‘ink’ disease of chestnuts constitutes a serious damper to French sylviculture. 1932 Forestry 6 182 The fungus causing the ink disease of chestnut, has a very wide distribution. 1968 F. G. Browne Pests & Dis. Forest Plantation Trees ii. 915 It [sc. Phytophthora cambivora] is one of the pathogens..associated with ink disease, a severe malady of Castanea. † ink-divine n. Obsolete (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > text > [noun] > strict adherence to > person scripturer?1550 Scripturary1563 Scripturian1565 ink-divine1604 scripturist1604 textual1613 text-man1619 textualist1629 Scripturarian1652 scripturalist?1702 textuary1728 Bible-bigot1766 Bible-moth1789 bibliolatrist1826 Biblist1836 Biblicist1837 gymnobiblist1844 bibliolater1847 1604 S. Hieron Preachers Plea in Wks. (1620) I. 533 It is no matter, though the papists continue to call vs in scorne inke-diuines, because of our close adhering to the holy text. ink-duct n. (a) the duct of a cephalopod's ink-bag; (b) = ink-trough n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink reservoir colour box1807 ink-trough1818 ink-duct1835 ink-fountain1875 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 530/1 Delicate fasciculi..intercept the termination of the..ink-duct. 1883 W. Blades in Printers' Reg. 125/2 The ink-duct at the end, with its roller supplying a small but regular quantity of ink at each revolution. ink-eraser n. a piece of prepared caoutchouc, or similar substance, used to erase writing in ink or blots. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > [noun] > device for erasing > rubber rubber1779 Indian rubber?1780 India rubber1784 ink-eraser1881 bungee1928 1881 Daily News 1 Mar. 5/1 However long you may boil the tender parts of camel, the plat..is no better than so much ink-eraser. ink-feed n. the duct which carries the ink to the nib of a fountain pen; also, the feeding of ink through this duct. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > writing instrument > [noun] > pen > fountain pen > part of ink-feed1907 feed1957 1907 Westm. Gaz. 23 Oct. 11/1 The Patent Spoon-Feed has successfully overcome the ink-feed difficulty. 1935 Discovery Jan. 15/2 He must decide whether to alter the colour of the ink, its consistency, the rate of ink-feed. ink-fish n. a cuttlefish or squid. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > member of squid1613 ink-fish1693 squid fish1726 decapod1835 1693 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 17 855 The Sleave or Ink-fish, Lolligo. 1752 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. III. 97 The Ink-fish, or Cuttle-fish..when in danger of being taken, it emits a black liquor like ink out of it's mouth. ink-fountain n. = ink-trough n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink reservoir colour box1807 ink-trough1818 ink-duct1835 ink-fountain1875 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1798/2 The ink-fountain and ink-distributing apparatus. ink-gland n. = ink-bag n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Cephalopoda > [noun] > order Dibranchiata > section Decapoda > member of > ink-bag ink-bag1835 ink-gland1851 1851 S. P. Woodward Man. Mollusca i. 63 Ink-gland always present. ink-jerker n. U.S. = ink-slinger n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reckless writer ink-jerker1865 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer scribblera1556 paper-blurrera1586 by-writer1587 feather-driver1593 squitter-book1594 paper-stainer1596 blur-paper1603 spoil-paper1610 penster1611 inkhorn matea1616 squitter-wit1615 ink-dabbler1616 squitter-pulpa1640 quill-driver1700 scribble-scrabble1707 authorling1752 writerling1802 inkhorn varlet1820 toe-writer1845 pen-driver1854 anonymuncule1859 ink-jerker1865 pen-pusher1875 pseudonymuncle1875 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 blotter- 1865 Harper's Mag. May 683/2 This rattle-brained scribbler, this miserable ink-jerker. ink-knife n. a blade for controlling the flow of ink from an ink-fountain, or for pressing down the ink. † ink-man n. Obsolete the employee in a printing-office who prepares the ink for use. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printer > [noun] > preparer of ink ink-man1598 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Inchiostraro, an inke-man, an inke-maker. 1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lv. 522 The Printer seemes to muster a great many vnder him; the Founder, Grauer, Cutter, Inke-man, Paper-man, Corrector, Compositor, Presse-men, and others. ink-mirror n. a surface of ink used in clairvoyance in place of a crystal. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > crystal-gazing > [noun] > object used in crystal stonea1387 crystala1400 crystal ball?a1513 prospective glassa1584 prospective stonea1584 show-stone1583 prospective1604 seeing-stone1680 ink-mirror1905 1905 E. F. Benson Image in Sand ii Abdul had..tried him with the simple experiment of the ink~mirror, and found him extraordinarily sensitive. ink-mushroom n. a mushroom of the genus Coprinus. ink-nut n. = myrobalan n. ink-pad n. an inking-pad. ink-pencil n. a pencil filled with a composition possessing some of the qualities of ink. ink-plant n. the European shrub Coriaria myrtifolia, or New Zealand species C. thymifolia. ink-powder n. the powdered ingredients of ink. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > ink powder ink-powder1690 1690 London Gaz. No. 2534/4 Holman's London Ink-Powder,..being the best Ingredients for making the strongest and best black Writing Ink. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia (at cited word) Ink powder..is nothing else than the substances employed in the composition of common ink, pounded and pulverised. Categories » ink-printing n. the process of making photographic prints in common ink. ink-roller n. an inking-roller. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-roller roller1662 composition roller1825 ink-roller1825 rider1878 waver1882 inker1884 ink-cylinder1894 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 307 It..remains for a short period in contact with the surface of the ink-roller..thereby receiving a portion of ink upon its surface. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 181 A series of distributing ink-rollers. ink-root n. the root of the American sea-lavender or marsh-rosemary ( Statice Limonium). ink-sac n. = ink-bag n. ink-saucer n. a dark mark (beneath the eye). ΚΠ 1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer (ed. 2) I. 3 He had great black eyes, with ink-saucers under them. ink-slab n. (a) the slate or stone slab of an ink-table; (b) a container for ink; spec. in the Far East, a slab on which ink is mixed ready for writing. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > containers for ink inkhorn1382 inkpot1553 ink-well1875 dipping-well1889 ink-slab1890 ink cartridge1955 society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-block, -slab, or -table ink-block1688 ink-table1825 slab1859 ink-slab1890 1890 C. T. Jacobi Printing 288/2 Ink slab, the table on which ink is distributed, either at press or machine. 1895 Montgomery Ward Catal. Spring & Summer 210/2 Slate ink slabs... 5 inch square with heavy glass cover. 1911 Encycl. Brit. XXII. 354/2 A second..roller conveys the ink from this drum to the distributing table or ink slab. 1963 W. C. Kenneison & A. J. B. Spilman Dict. Printing 100 Ink slab, that part of certain printing presses, consisting of a large, flat, steel bed, from which the distributing rollers..take ink. 1969 Korean Folklore & Classics I. 23 He..picked up his teacher's ink-slab. ink-slice n. a broad knife or paddle used for handling printer's ink. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > ink-knife slice1683 ink-slice1884 1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) 384 Where very large quantities of ink are required to be spread out on the table, an ink slice is sometimes used. ink-slinger n. originally U.S. a contemptuous appellation for a professional writer, esp. a reckless writer in the newspaper press. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reckless writer ink-jerker1865 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer scribblera1556 paper-blurrera1586 by-writer1587 feather-driver1593 squitter-book1594 paper-stainer1596 blur-paper1603 spoil-paper1610 penster1611 inkhorn matea1616 squitter-wit1615 ink-dabbler1616 squitter-pulpa1640 quill-driver1700 scribble-scrabble1707 authorling1752 writerling1802 inkhorn varlet1820 toe-writer1845 pen-driver1854 anonymuncule1859 ink-jerker1865 pen-pusher1875 pseudonymuncle1875 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 blotter- 1887 W. Douglas Duelling Days in Army 132 Every one on the Paris press seems ready..to fight any other ink-slinger on the slightest provocation. 1896 Academy 7 Nov. 347/2 Only great critics, or impertinent ink slingers, would attempt to appraise their value. ink-slinging n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > [noun] > other specific types or styles of journalism penny-a-lining1842 publicism1846 New Journalism1872 investigative reporting1890 ink-slinging1894 yellowism1897 chip paper1935 Afghanistanism1948 telejournalism1959 parajournalism1965 smear journalism1967 gonzo1972 plutography1985 1894 Daily News 2 May 6/3 High~bred women who were not given to what modern Americans call ‘ink-slinging’. 1896 Spectator 7 Nov. 619 There is..no picturesque ink-slinging, as the happy American phrase goes. ink-spiller n. U.S. = ink-slinger n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journalist > [noun] > reckless writer ink-jerker1865 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > inferior writer scribblera1556 paper-blurrera1586 by-writer1587 feather-driver1593 squitter-book1594 paper-stainer1596 blur-paper1603 spoil-paper1610 penster1611 inkhorn matea1616 squitter-wit1615 ink-dabbler1616 squitter-pulpa1640 quill-driver1700 scribble-scrabble1707 authorling1752 writerling1802 inkhorn varlet1820 toe-writer1845 pen-driver1854 anonymuncule1859 ink-jerker1865 pen-pusher1875 pseudonymuncle1875 ink-spiller1881 ink-slinger1887 blotter- 1881 Punch 10 Sept. 110/2 To think people ain't got more savvy than what these inkspillers enjoy. ink-spot n. (a) a stain of ink; (b) a dark spot on the skin. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [noun] > spot or mark spotOE markOE tachea1400 macula?a1425 ruby1542 plotch1548 flea-biting1552 fleck1598 blanch1608 staina1616 naeve1619 neve1624 dark1637 sunspot1651 pip1676 liver spot1684 beauty spot1795 heat-spot1822 spilus1822 ink-spot1839 punctation1848 punctuation1848 macule1864 soldier's spots1874 pock1894 mouche1959 the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > spotted condition > spot > of ink ink-spot1839 1839 Mag. Domest. Econ. 4 214 Ink-spots and other stains on silk. 1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. II. 223 If a general erythema [in small-pox] be..accompanied by isolated ink spots it will certainly be fatal. ink-stone n. (a) native copperas or iron-sulphate, used in making ink; (b) a slab of stone or slate on which Indian ink is prepared for use by rubbing. ΚΠ 1834 N. F. Moore Anc. Mineral. 95 Of the melanteria, or ink stone, Dioscorides remarks that ‘some have taken it to be the same with sory’. 1938 Burlington Mag. Aug. 90/2 The inkslabs and inkstones, so sought after by collectors. ink-surface n. a surface serving as an ink-table. ink-table n. in a printing-press, the table or slab on which the ink is distributed by the roller. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink-block, -slab, or -table ink-block1688 ink-table1825 slab1859 ink-slab1890 1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 307 The reciprocating motion of the carriage causes the ink-table..to receive ink upon its surface from the elastic roller. 1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) 467 As an ink-table for colour work there is nothing equal to white marble. 1892 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 4) 12 In ‘machines’..the ink table always adjoins the type bed, and the rollers are passed over it and on to the type mechanically. ink-tippler n. one who is constantly using ink, a writer.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1842 C. G. F. Gore Fascination 120 Do I look like an old rat that has spent its days in gnawing the classics?.. Am I an ink tippler? a college sizar? ink-trough n. the reservoir containing the ink in a printing machine. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink reservoir colour box1807 ink-trough1818 ink-duct1835 ink-fountain1875 1818 E. Cowper in Savage Dict. Print. (1841) at Inking Apparatus The ink trough is fixed at one edge of the table. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 181 An ink-trough from which the roller..is lifted at every revolution. ink-value n. the equivalent in a black-and-white print of a colour in a painting. ΚΠ 1894 Athenæum 22 Dec. 867/1 The rendering of what are called the ink values of Mr. Beardsley's designs..must have been a matter of frequent difficulty. ink-wash n. Japanese Painting (see wash n. 4b). ΚΠ 1936 Burlington Mag. Oct. 162/2 The spirited ink-wash technique. ink weed n. Australian and New Zealand a perennial herb of the genus Phytolacca, which bears black berries containing a reddish juice (= poke n.⁴ 1). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Phytolaccaceae (poke-weed and allies) > [noun] redweed1624 poke1687 phytolacca1730 pork physic1733 pokeweed1751 pokeberry1754 rivina1754 guinea-hen weed1836 hoop-withe1847 pocan1858 strong man's weed1864 ink weed1913 1906 T. F. Cheeseman Man. N.Z. Flora 1085 Phytolacca octandra... Ink-plant; Poke-weed.] 1913 Jrnl. Agric. (N.Z.) 7 369 Inkweed, or pokeweed (Phytolacca octandra), is a poisonous plant. 1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 15 Nov. 28/4 Inkweed is hard to burn or eradicate if it gets a hold. 1962 N. C. W. Beadle et al. Handbk. Vasc. Plants Sydney Distr. 160 Weed of waste ground. Introd. from Trop. Amer. Ink Weed. P[hytolacca] octandra. ink-well n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > containers for ink inkhorn1382 inkpot1553 ink-well1875 dipping-well1889 ink-slab1890 ink cartridge1955 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1188/2 Ink-well, an ink-cup adapted to occupy a hole in a desk. 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 71 While it [the inking disc] just dips into the ink-well it also gently presses against the paper. ink-wood n. the tree Hypelate paniculata, found in Southern Florida and the West Indies. ΚΠ 1895 C. S. Sargent Silva N. Amer. II. 75 Exothea paniculata..Ink Wood. ink-writer n. a telegraph instrument which records messages in ink. ΘΚΠ society > communication > telecommunication > telegraphy or telephony > telegraphy > telegraph > [noun] > types of > recording telegraphs telegraph register1845 Morse1867 recorder1867 nicker1871 ink-writer1876 inker1882 ticker1883 news ticker1887 tape-machine1891 synchronograph1897 tape-ticker1904 undulator1910 reperforator1913 1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 116 Wheatstone's system of automatic telegraphy is that which is used in England..the messages are recorded on an exceedingly delicate form of direct ink-writer. 1888 T. Gray in Encycl. Brit. XXIII. 119/2 The form of instrument almost universally used in Europe makes the record in ink, and hence is sometimes called the ‘ink-writer’. Draft additions 1997 ink cartridge n. (a) = cartridge n. Additions (d); (b) any of various similar containers used in electronic typewriters, computer printers, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > other writing equipment > [noun] > containers for ink inkhorn1382 inkpot1553 ink-well1875 dipping-well1889 ink-slab1890 ink cartridge1955 society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > ink reservoir > refillable container for dispensing ink ink cartridge1955 cartridge1985 1955 Stationery Trade Rev. June 82/3 The Waterman C/F Pen... Ink always fresh. Each ink cartridge hermetically sealed with fresh Instant-Flo real ink. 1978 Oil & Gas Jrnl. 26 June 173/3 New Speedomax 165/250 Series one-pen and two-pen recorders are now available with either disposable ink cartridge or thermal inking system. 1983 Money May 194/1 Disdaining modern ink cartridges, the Diplomat has a manual plunger that siphons ink from a bottle into the reservoir. 1983 InfoWorld 21 Nov. 79/1 Atari's 1027 uses an ink cartridge instead of a ribbon. 1992 RS Components: Electronic & Electr. Products July 115/1 A replacement ink cartridge, containing a specially formulated free flowing non-clogging ink, for the Epson SQ-2500 ink jet printer. Draft additions 1993 Cheap red wine; = red ink n. 1. slang (chiefly U.S.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > class or grade of wine > [noun] > cheap or inferior wine drum-winea1640 red ink1849 Gladstone (claret)1864 pinkie1897 dago red1906 pinard1917 ink1918 plonk1927 grocer's Graves1931 grocer's wine1931 nelly1941 Red Ned1941 vaaljapie1945 purple death1947 grocer's sherry1958 papsak2004 1918 R. W. Imbrie Behind Wheel of War Ambulance ix. 115 New men were apt to be confused by the talk... Wine was ‘ink’ and the cook ‘the Zouave’. 1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 301/2 Ink, wine. This use was restricted to red wine. 1938 New Yorker 12 Mar. 36/3 Wine is an aid to the hashish smoker and all the pads sell it—a cheap local ‘ink’. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. 166 Here is a group of indigenous terms used to describe cheap wines: Africa speaks, bombo, Clever Mary, corrobbery water, ink, [etc.]. 1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 69 Ink, cheap wine. Draft additions June 2015 inkjet n. used attributively to designate a type of printing or printer in which characters and graphics are produced by minute electromagnetically controlled jets of ink projected on to the paper (chiefly in inkjet printer, inkjet printing); (hence, in simple use) an inkjet printer. ΚΠ 1973 McGraw-Hill Yearbk. Sci. & Technol. 230/2 Ink-jet writing..is not only nonimpact but noncontact... Dye inks are available in wide enough choice of colors to allow extremely good color reproduction when needed. 1978 Gloss. Terms Data Processing (B.S.I.) xii. 11/1 Ink jet printer, a non-impact printer in which the characters are formed by projecting a jet of ink onto paper. 1979 Sci. Amer. Apr. 120/1 Ink-jet printing is one of the new dot-matrix technologies. 1990 Managem. Computing Nov. 75/1 (caption) The two Diconix models..are battery-powered ink-jets, and lead the portable printer market. 2013 Atlantic Sept. 26/3 If you open up a modern ink-jet printer, there are practically no moving parts—just a little stepper motor that moves the head along. Draft additions June 2015 a. colloquial. Ink viewed as the medium for press or newspaper coverage on a particular subject; (hence) the coverage itself; publicity in the written media. ΚΠ 1918 N. C. Smith in Postal Rec. June 166/2 Time was when quite a bit of ink was used in publishing the faces of Congressmen, postmasters, [etc.]. 1921 Mixer & Server 21 June 36/2 A lot of ink was spilled about the subject of reparations. It looked from the newspapers..that we were going to have an echo of the big scrap. 1960 Stage & Television Today 17 Nov. 17/6 A lot of ink has flowed from critics..in protest against the arbitrary decisions of directors when it comes to interpreting..the intentions of the playwright. 1975 Princeton Alumni Weekly 27 May 26/3 If I see you at Reunions, you are sure to get some ink in a future column. 2014 Huffington Post (Nexis) 20 Feb. Much ink (virtual and otherwise) is spent commenting on the true meaning of that text. b. colloquial. A tattoo, or tattoos collectively. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the body > [noun] > tattooing > tattoo skin print1625 tattoo1777 henna tattoo1906 ink1931 tat1981 1931 Sun (Baltimore) 25 July 20/6 (heading) Ink Leads to Grave of Missing Youth. 1981 Washington Post (Nexis) 2 Mar. (Style section) c1 Excepting his face, neck, hands, and feet, every inch..is covered with ink. 1987 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 26 Feb. My old prejudice is completely gone now. A bit of ink on the arm does not change a person. 1990 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 12 July (Everyday Mag.) 3 e It made all the ink on Guns N' Roses look small-time. 1991 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. 3 Apr. e3/3 There's a lot of dudes in the joint that don't have any ink on them. 1997 J.-C. Miller Body Art Bk. v. 79 No conscientious ink slinger wants to tattoo someone who hasn't given their ink a lot of thought. 2004 Gazette (Colorado Springs) 29 Dec. (Northwest/Central ed.) (Slice section) 17/4 The Springs has more than 50 places to get some ink done. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). inkn.² Forms: Also 1500s ynck, 1500s–1600s inke. Etymology: Origin unknown. †1. originally. An iron cross set in the lower face of the upper millstone, and serving to poise it on the spindle which turns it; a mill-rind. As a charge in Heraldry = fer-de-moline n.; see also ink-molyne n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of implements > [noun] > mill-rind mill-ironc1343 mill-rind1562 ink1572 ink-molyne1572 fer-de-moline1728 mill-ink1874 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > milling or grinding > [noun] > corn-mill > millstone > upper > support bridge treea1300 rind1318 ink1572 1572 J. Bossewell Wks. Armorie iii. f. 20^v The office of an Ynck Molyne, and to what purpose it serueth betwene the Myll stones, is, I thinke, knowne to moste men, but to Myllers especially, who in takinge theire tolle, forget oftentimes the Rule taught them by their myll ynck. 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. vii. 71 Perhaps because it resembleth the Inke of a Mill, which is euermore Pierced. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 341/1 The Inke or Rinde of a Mill. Millers term it in English a Brandret or Mill Rinde. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Fer de Moulin The Iron-Ink, or Ink of a Mill, which sustains the moving Mill-stone. 2. (See quot. 1875.) ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1019/2 Step or Ink, the socket which holds the toe of a vertical shaft or spindle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). inkn.³ Brit. /ɪŋk/, U.S. /ɪŋk/, Scottish English /ɪŋk/ Etymology: Variant of ing n. Scottish. plural. Low-lying grassland subject to flooding by spring tides. Also (in singular) attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > covered by sea washc1440 sea-common1584 salting1712 inksa1740 tide-land1787 sea-grounds1826 salting-mound1908 shore1919 tide-water1949 a1740 A. Heron Descr. Parish Minigaff in A. Symson Large Descr. Galloway (1823) App. 138 Down the river, about a mile from the Church..a large plott of fine fir-planting, over-looking a rich ink ground. 1802 Farmer's Mag. Aug. 331 Eighty acres..consisted of a rich sea marsh, or inks, as we call them here, almost a true level,..about 4 or 5 acres,..16 inches lower, being a younger marsh, and nothing but what we call ink grass growing upon it. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 280 Inks.—On muddy, level shores,..pieces of land overflowed with spring tides, and not touched by common ones..; on these grow a coarse kind of grass. 1848 Scottish Jrnl. Topogr. 2 234/1 Spurlings to net in the inks of the Cree. 1899 Galloway Advertiser 27 July 1/3 Extent, 240 acres or thereby of Carse Land of excellent quality, together with a very large extent of ‘Inks’ or Shore Pasture. 1974 Scottish Field Apr. 15/4 Some of the sunsets especially, behind the Inks and Wigtown Sands, are as fine as you can see anywhere. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). inkv. Brit. /ɪŋk/, U.S. /ɪŋk/ Forms: Also 1500s enk. Etymology: < ink n.¹ 1. a. transitive. To mark, stain, or smear with or as with ink. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > soil [verb (transitive)] > stain > stain with specific substances ink1562 menstruate1660 iron-mould1694 1562 Bp. J. Pilkington Expos. Abdyas Pref. sig. Aa vij^v Enking their hands in bloude. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 16 Mar. (1965) I. 389 You may..send Letters of passion, freindship..or even of news, without ever inking your fingers. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. To Ink, to black or daub with ink: as, his face is all over inked. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby viii. 67 There were a couple of long old rickety desks, cut and notched, and inked and damaged, in every possible way. 1865 A. D. Whitney Gayworthys iii. 39 Grasping the pen close down toward the nib, and inking himself profusely. b. To cover (types, etc.) with ink in order to print from them. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [verb (transitive)] > distribute ink ink1728 beat1824 ink up1845 re-ink1845 to run up1884 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Printing The Plate sufficiently inked, they first wipe it coarsely over with a foul Rag. 1813 J. M. Good et al. Pantologia at Printing The cylinder A returns empty, and the cylinder B inked. 1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 18/2 One [man] to ink the types. 1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 190 He seized the semi-liquid glue and with it inked a forme. 2. With adverbs, as ink in (or over), to go over or trace in ink (lines previously drawn in pencil); ink out, to obliterate with ink; ink up, to cover completely with ink. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > manner of writing > [verb (transitive)] > ink over ink in (or over)1803 society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [verb (transitive)] > distribute ink ink1728 beat1824 ink up1845 re-ink1845 to run up1884 the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by covering with liquid unpainta1648 bisk1713 to paint out1834 to black out1850 ink out1881 to white out1974 Tippex1983 1803 Lett. Miss Riversdale I. 319 The Prince took down the notes in pencil..and promised to ink them over for Lady Belfont. 1845 Athenæum 18 Jan. 71 The impression is inked up with rollers and printed from in the usual manner of surface-printing. 1881 Bibliographer Dec. 8/1 The separate 1525 device..with the objectionable motto inked out. 1884 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 2) 398 If the roller has been inked up, it must be carefully scraped with a blunt knife before being used again. 1886 N.Z. Herald 28 May 3/7 Finished drawings, inked in and elaborately coloured. 1892 Ld. Rosebery in Daily News 16 Mar. 3/2 The equity of the case will be met if Mr. Campbell retires with the scrutineers and inks over his pencil. 1929 A. C. Edington & C. Edington Studio Murder Myst. iii. 23 It was inked into his mind's eye, so that even when he shut his eyes..he could not shut out that awful picture. 1952 C. Day Lewis tr. Virgil Aeneid iii. 59 A streaming night inked out The sky. 1959 Times 26 Jan. 6/1 The Yeames is a picture surely so inked into the national memory that it would need more than condemnation of its taste to eradicate it. Draft additions 1993 3. To conclude (a business deal) by signing a contract; hence, to sign (a contract). Also, to obtain the services of (someone) under contract. slang (chiefly Cinematography and Sport). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > make an agreement with [verb (transitive)] > engage (a person) ensurec1400 firm1530 wed1578 engage1603 ink1940 contract1961 1940 Variety 18 Dec. 5/5 William A. Seiter inked a deal to produce and direct two features for Universal. 1951 Variety 19 Sept. 33/4 Barry Gray's chatter stanza on WMCA, N.Y. has inked nine sponsors to start this month. 1951 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 23 Sept. 1B/1 If Dizzy inked the thing, all was to be forgiven and the incident forgotten. 1968 G. Vidal Myra Breckinridge xlii. 262 He promptly inked a multiple nonexclusive contract with Universal. 1975 Observer 6 Jan. 17/1 The contract safely inked, I was interviewed at some length. 1988 Basketball Scene Ann. 94/3 Rice signed guards Will Strickland and Dana Hardy while TCU inked guards Tony Edmond and Kelvin Crawford. 1991 Rage 13 Feb. 19/1 Signed to Situation 2..purely on the strength of a demo tape—they actually inked the deal before they had played their first gig. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1250n.²1572n.³a1740v.1562
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