Chalk
[tʃɔːk] or [tʃɔk]
Definition
(noun.) a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces.
(noun.) a pure flat white with little reflectance.
(noun.) a soft whitish calcite.
(verb.) write, draw, or trace with chalk.
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Definition
(n.) A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
(n.) Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon.
(v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.
(v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land.
(v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
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Definition
n. the well-known white substance a carbonate of lime.—v.t. to rub or manure with chalk.—v.i. to mark with chalk: in a tavern to write the score with chalk.—ns. Chalk′iness; Chalk′-pit a pit in which chalk is dug; Chalk′-stone a stone or piece of chalk: (pl.) the white concretions formed round the joints in chronic gout.—adj. Chalk′y.—Chalk for cheese a small price for a good article.—Chalking the door in Scotland a form of warning tenants to remove from burghal tenements.—Chalk out to trace out as with chalk to plan.—By a long chalk by a considerable distance referring to the habit of scoring with chalk.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
For a woman to dream of chalking her face, denotes that she will scheme to obtain admirers. To dream of using chalk on a board, you will attain public honors, unless it is the blackboard; then it indicates ill luck. To hold hands full of chalk, disappointment is foretold.
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Examples
- It is a thousand pities that we have not a reproduction of those which were done in chalk upon the window-sill. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The principal productions of these towns,' says Mr. Pickwick, 'appear to be soldiers, sailors, Jews, chalk, shrimps, officers, and dockyard men. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- To cleanse use well-made brushes, soft quill, or wood toothpicks, an antacid styptic tooth wash, and precipitated chalk. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Diametrically opposite to the chalk mark a small hole is punched into the ball to indicate the weightiest point. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The chalk was rotated by hand. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- They had been drawn in chalk upon the black wooden door of the tool-house, which stands beside the lawn in full view of the front windows. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- No, sir, says Johnny, and then under his breath to placate God's penchant for truth, I threw the chalk-eraser. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- There's the likeness of a man being hung, and smoking the while, chalked outside the door. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Is it chalked upon the walls and cried in the streets? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- But do you not see, that, under the idea of exalting me, he is chalking out a new path for himself; a path of action from which he has long wandered? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Always running about and screeching, always playing and fighting, always skip-skip-skipping on the pavement and chalking it for their games! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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