Ink
[ɪŋk]
Definition
(noun.) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods.
(noun.) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing.
(verb.) fill with ink; 'ink a pen'.
(verb.) mark, coat, cover, or stain with ink; 'he inked his finger'.
(verb.) append one's signature to; 'They inked the contract'.
Checked by Bernadette--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
(n.) A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.
(n.) A pigment. See India ink, under India.
(v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.
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Definition
n. a coloured fluid used in writing printing &c.—v.t. to daub with ink.—ns. Ink′-bag -sac a sac in some cuttle-fishes containing a black viscid fluid; Ink′-bott′le an inkstand: a bottle for holding ink placed in an inkstand; Ink′holder Ink′stand a vessel for holding ink; Ink′horn (obs.) an inkholder formerly of horn: a portable case for ink &c.; Ink′horn-mate (Shak.) a bookish man; Ink′iness; Ink′-pot an inkholder.—adj. pedantic.—ns. Ink′ing-ta′ble a table or flat surface used for supplying the inking-roller with ink during the process of printing; Ink′ing-roll′er a roller covered with a composition for inking printing types; Ink′-stone a kind of stone containing sulphate of iron used in making ink.—adj. Ink′y consisting of or resembling ink: blackened with ink.—n. Print′ing-ink (see Print).—China ink Indian ink a mechanical mixture of the purest and densest lampblack with a solution of gum or gelatine; Invisible or Sympathetic ink a kind of ink which remains invisible on the paper until it is heated.—Sling ink (slang) to write: to earn one's bread by writing.
Editor: Margie
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see ink spilled over one's clothing, many small and spiteful meannesses will be wrought you through envy. If a young woman sees ink, she will be slandered by a rival. To dream that you have ink on your fingers, you will be jealous and seek to injure some one unless you exercise your better nature. If it is red ink, you will be involved in a serious trouble. To dream that you make ink, you will engage in a low and debasing business, and you will fall into disreputable associations. To see bottles of ink in your dreams, indicates enemies and unsuccessful interests.
Typist: Sol
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A villainous compound of tannogallate of iron gum-arabic and water chiefly used to facilitate the infection of idiocy and promote intellectual crime. The properties of ink are peculiar and contradictory: it may be used to make reputations and unmake them; to blacken them and to make them white; but it is most generally and acceptably employed as a mortar to bind together the stones of an edifice of fame and as a whitewash to conceal afterward the rascal quality of the material. There are men called journalists who have established ink baths which some persons pay money to get into others to get out of. Not infrequently it occurs that a person who has paid to get in pays twice as much to get out.
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Examples
- Much depends on the proper consistency of the ink. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- All this involved, no doubt, sufficient active exercise of pen and ink to make her daughter's part in the proceedings anything but a holiday. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The last name was written in pencil, and Amy explained that he was to rewrite it in ink and seal it up for her properly. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- It is called a siphon recorder because the record is made by a little glass siphon down which a flow of ink is maintained like a fountain pen. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- I'll go right in the house, for paper and ink; and then, you know, Aunt Chloe, I can tell about the new colts and all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Late improvements in the manufacture of inks are due to the discovery and cheapening of substances which can be used in preparing them. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- All invisible inks will show on glazed paper, therefore unglazed paper should be used. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- An inking roller is seen on the right, which inks the faces of the type. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- Maroon ink may be made by mixing equal quantities of black, blue, and red inks; yellow by adding 1-1/4 drachms of picric acid to 1 pint of hot water. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- All this information was embodied graphically in large maps of the district, by annotations in colored inks; and Edison thus could study the question with every detail before him. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It finds its greatest application in artistic and fanciful work in inks of various colors, and its development into chromo-lithography in the Nineteenth Century has grown into a fine art. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- These hammers are inked from a pad, and at a central point deliver a printing blow on the paper below. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The types, placed upon a flat stone embedded in a movable table, were inked with large soft balls covered with pelts. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The type is now made by machinery, inked by machinery, set and distributed again by machinery. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The frame or chase of type was fixed on this table, and when inked and with the paper laid in place, was slid under the platen, which was a smooth planed board. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- When this has been carefully done the leaf to be copied is laid on a piece of waste paper and inked by applying the roller once or more with moderate pressure. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The types are inked by a series of rollers, by which the ink is distributed and evenly laid on the face of the types without any manual labour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- A young gentleman who had inked himself by accident addressed me from the pavement and said, I am from Kenge and Carboy's, miss, of Lincoln's Inn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- An inking roller, charged with an oily ink, is then passed over the stone and inks the drawing, but leaves all the other parts of the stone quite clean. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- In this was subsequently introduced an automatic device for inking the roller, as it was moved back from over the bed of type on to an inking table. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- These inking rollers supplied an essential want in the working of Printing Machines. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- He perfected the dot and dash code, he invented the device for embossing the message, and replaced the inking pen by a metal disc, smeared with ink, that rolled the dots and dashes on the paper. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Earl Stanhope had endeavoured in vain to construct inking rollers, for which purpose he tried skins and pelts of various kinds, but the seam proved an obstacle that he could not overcome. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The invention of printing machines was preceded by the manufacture of inking rollers, to supersede the pelt balls for distributing the ink over the types. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The type-form was reciprocated beneath an inking apparatus and the paper cylinder alternately. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
Typist: Mason