Definition of chalk

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Chalk (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..

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Calciform :: Calciform (a.) In the form of chalk or lime.
Line :: Line (n.) A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line..
Malmbrick :: Malmbrick (n.) A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk..
Verditer :: Verditer (n.) Either one of two pigments (called blue verditer, and green verditer) which are made by treating copper nitrate with calcium carbonate (in the form of lime, whiting, chalk, etc.) They consist of hydrated copper carbonates analogous to the minerals azurite and malachite..
Reddle :: Reddle (n.) Red chalk. See under Chalk.
Chalk :: Chalk (v. t.) To manure with chalk, as land..
Meagre :: Meagre (a.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk..
Chalk :: Chalk (v. t.) To rub or mark with chalk.
Chalk :: Chalk (v. t.) To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach..
Clunch :: Clunch (n.) One of the hard beds of the lower chalk.
Chalkiness :: Chalkiness (n.) The state of being chalky.
Shovelboard :: Shovelboard (n.) A game played on board ship in which the aim is to shove or drive with a cue wooden disks into divisions chalked on the deck; -- called also shuffleboard.
Drawing :: Drawing (n.) The act or the art of representing any object by means of lines and shades; especially, such a representation when in one color, or in tints used not to represent the colors of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn..
Calcite :: Calcite (n.) Calcium carbonate, or carbonate of lime. It is rhombohedral in its crystallization, and thus distinguished from aragonite. It includes common limestone, chalk, and marble. Called also calc-spar and calcareous spar..
Geophagist :: Geophagist (n.) One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc..
Insoluble :: Insoluble (a.) Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water..
Calk :: Calk (v. t.) To copy, as a drawing, by rubbing the back of it with red or black chalk, and then passing a blunt style or needle over the lines, so as to leave a tracing on the paper or other thing against which it is laid or held..
Cretose :: Cretose (a.) Chalky; cretaceous.
Neocomian :: Neocomian (n.) A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand..
Cretaceously :: Cretaceously (adv.) In a chalky manner; as chalk.
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