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chalk

CHALK, n. A well known calcarious earth, of an opake white color, soft and admitting no polish. It contains a large portion of carbonic acid, and is a subspecies of carbonate of lime. It is used as an absorbent and anti-acid.

Cleaveland. Nicholson. Kirwan. Aikin.

Black-chalk is a species of earth used by painters for drawing on blue paper.

Red-chalk is an indurated clayey ocher used by painters and artificers.

CHALK, v.t.

1. To rub with chalk; to mark with chalk.

2. To manure with chalk, as land.

3. From the use of chalk in marking lines, the phrase to chalk out is used to signify, to lay out, draw out or describe; as, to chalk out a plan of proceeding.


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CHALK, n. A well known calcarious earth, of an opake white color, soft and admitting no polish. It contains a large portion of carbonic acid, and is a subspecies of carbonate of lime. It is used as an absorbent and anti-acid.

Cleaveland. Nicholson. Kirwan. Aikin.

Black-chalk is a species of earth used by painters for drawing on blue paper.

Red-chalk is an indurated clayey ocher used by painters and artificers.

CHALK, v.t.

1. To rub with chalk; to mark with chalk.

2. To manure with chalk, as land.

3. From the use of chalk in marking lines, the phrase to chalk out is used to signify, to lay out, draw out or describe; as, to chalk out a plan of proceeding.

CHALK, n. [chauk; Sax. cealc; D. Dan. and G. kalk; Sw. kalck; W. calc; Corn. kalch; Ir. cailk; L. calx; Fr. chaux. The Latin calx is lime-stone, chalk-stone, and the heel, and calco is to kick and to tread. In Italian calca is a crowd. The sense then is a mass made compact, a clod or lump. If the Gr. χαλιξ, flint, gravel, is the same word, the Latins deviated from their usual practice in writing calx; for chalx. These words are probably connected in origin with callus.]

A well known calcarious earth, of an opake white color, soft and admitting no polish. It contains a large portion of carbonic acid, and is a subspecies of carbonate of lime. It is used as an absorbent and anti-acid. – Cleaveland. Nicholson. Kirwan. Aikin. Black chalk is a species of earth used by painters for drawing on blue paper. Red chalk is an indurated clayey ocher used by painters and artificers.


CHALK, v.t.

  1. To rub with chalk; to mark with chalk.
  2. To manure with chalk, as land.
  3. From the use of chalk in marking lines, the phrase to chalk out is used to signify, to lay out, draw out, or describe; as, to chalk out a plan of proceeding.

Chalk
  1. A soft, earthy substance, of a white, grayish, or yellowish white color, consisting of calcium carbonate, and having the same composition as common limestone.
  2. To rub or mark with chalk.
  3. 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.

    Black chalk, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. -- By a long chalk, by a long way; by many degrees. [Slang] Lowell. -- Chalk drawing (Fine Arts), a drawing made with crayons. See Crayon. -- Chalk formation. See Cretaceous formation, under Cretaceous. -- Chalk line, a cord rubbed with chalk, used for making straight lines on boards or other material, as a guide in cutting or in arranging work. -- Chalk mixture, a preparation of chalk, cinnamon, and sugar in gum water, much used in diarrheal affection, esp. of infants. -- Chalk period. (Geol.) See Cretaceous period, under Cretaceous. - - Chalk pit, a pit in which chalk is dug. -- Drawing chalk. See Crayon, n., 1. -- French chalk, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral. -- Red chalk, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.

  4. To manure with chalk, as land.

    Morimer.
  5. To make white, as with chalk] to make pale; to bleach.

    Tennyson.

    Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.
    Herbert.

    To chalk out, to sketch with, or as with, chalk; to outline; to indicate; to plan. [Colloq.] "I shall pursue the plan I have chalked out." Burke.

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Chalk

CHALK, noun A well known calcarious earth, of an opake white color, soft and admitting no polish. It contains a large portion of carbonic acid, and is a subspecies of carbonate of lime. It is used as an absorbent and anti-acid.

Cleaveland. Nicholson. Kirwan. Aikin.

Black-chalk is a species of earth used by painters for drawing on blue paper.

Red-chalk is an indurated clayey ocher used by painters and artificers.

CHALK, verb transitive

1. To rub with chalk; to mark with chalk

2. To manure with chalk as land.

3. From the use of chalk in marking lines, the phrase to chalk out is used to signify, to lay out, draw out or describe; as, to chalk out a plan of proceeding.

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