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Ink is a colored liquid that you use to write with on paper. When you sign on the dotted line, you usually do so with ink.

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The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

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
append one''s signature to; "They inked the contract"

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.

Ink

Ink , n. (Mach.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

Ink

Ink, n. [OE. enke, inke, OF. enque, F. encre, L. encaustum the purple red ink with which the Roman emperors signed their edicts, Gr. , fr. burnt in, encaustic, fr. to burn in. See Encaustic, Caustic.] 1. A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.

Make there a prick with ink.

Deformed monsters, foul and black as ink.

2. A pigment. See India ink, under India. &hand; Ordinarily, black ink is made from nutgalls and a solution of some salt of iron, and consists essentially of a tannate or gallate of iron; sometimes indigo sulphate, or other coloring matter,is added. Other black inks contain potassium chromate, and extract of logwood, salts of vanadium, etc. Blue ink is usually a solution of Prussian blue. Red ink was formerly made from carmine (cochineal), Brazil wood, etc., but potassium eosin is now used. Also red, blue, violet, and yellow inks are largely made from aniline dyes. Indelible ink is usually a weak solution of silver nitrate, but carbon in the form of lampblack or India ink, salts of molybdenum, vanadium, etc., are also used. Sympathetic inks may be made of milk, salts of cobalt, etc. See Sympathetic ink (below). Copying ink, a peculiar ink used for writings of which copies by impression are to be taken. -- Ink bag (Zo'94l.), an ink sac. -- Ink berry. (Bot.) (a) A shrub of the Holly family (Ilex glabra), found in sandy grounds along the coast from New England to Florida, and producing a small black berry. (b) The West Indian indigo berry. See Indigo. -- Ink plant (Bot.), a New Zealand shrub (Coriaria thumifolia), the berries of which uield a juice which forms an ink. -- Ink powder, a powder from which ink is made by solution. -- Ink sac (Zo'94l.), an organ, found in most cephalopods, containing an inky fluid which can be ejected from a duct opening at the base of the siphon. The fluid serves to cloud the water, and enable these animals to escape from their enemies. See Illust. of Dibranchiata. -- Printer's ink, ∨ Printing ink. See under Printing. -- Sympathetic ink, a writing fluid of such a nature that what is written remains invisible till the action of a reagent on the characters makes it visible.

Ink

Ink, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Inked (?nkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Inking.] To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.

The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.

To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.

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Usage Examples

A newspaper is lumber made malleable. It is ink made into words and pictures. It is conceived, born, grows up and dies of old age in a day.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

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Other Usage Examples

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

I was a woman in a man's world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.