| 单词 | black chalk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblack chalk a. Applied to other earths resembling chalk. fuller's chalk: ? fuller's earth. In quot. 1658 probably = calx n. brown chalk: a name for umber. French chalk (see French adj. and n. Compounds 1b). red chalk: a bed of chalk of a deep red colour in Norfolk; also applied to ‘ruddle, a red argillaceous ore of iron’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). black chalk (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > chalk or crayon chalk1481 pastel1612 crayonc1660 Conté1852 black chalk1854 sanguine1854 sumi1889 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 560 Sundry sorts of chaulkes for to scoure clothes, and namely the Tuckers earth. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 254 Mingled with fullers chaulke. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 911 The chaulk or salt of it..is..commended by Chymicks, and Chirurgeons, for to cure that kernell or tumour of flesh. 1854 Encycl. Brit. VI. 402/1 Black Chalk, a mineral used by artists for drawing. It is a variety of bituminous shale, the schiste-graphique of Haüy. 1886 J. W. Anderson Prospector's Handbk. 115 Black Chalk—a variety of clay containing carbon. 1889 N.E.D. at Chalk Mod. The section of the Red Chalk at Hunstanton. < as lemmas |
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