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a.
Lying above the chalk; Supercretaceous.
n.
A mass of chalk.
v. t.
To manure with chalk, as land.
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.
n.
A man who digs chalk.
v. t.
To make white, as with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Chalk
n.
The state of being chalky.
a.
Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
n.
Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc.
n.
A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
imp. & p. p.
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n.
Any fossil foraminifer of the genus Rotalia, abundant in the chalk formation. See Illust. under Rhizopod.
n.
One of the large sandstone blocks scattered over the English chalk downs; -- called also sarsen stone, and Druid stone.
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.
n.
A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.
a.
Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
n.
A chalklike concretion, consisting mainly of urate of sodium, found in and about the small joints, in the external ear, and in other situations, in those affected with gout; a tophus.
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.
v. t.
To rub or mark with chalk.
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