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Webster 1913 Edition
Chalk
1.
(Min.)
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.
(Fine Arts)
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 , 1.
– Crayon
, Noun.
French chalk
, steatite or soapstone, a soft magnesian mineral.
– Red chalk
, an indurated clayey ocher containing iron, and used by painters and artificers; reddle.
Chalk
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Chalked
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Chalking
.] 1.
To rub or mark with chalk.
2.
To manure with chalk, as land.
Morimer.
3.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chalk
CHALK
,Noun.
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.
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.