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India ink   /ˈɪndiə ɪŋk/   Listen
India ink

noun
1.
A black liquid ink used for printing or writing or drawing.  Synonym: drawing ink.






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"India ink" Quotes from Famous Books



... by far Was gallant Captain Thompson Tar; And (what was very wrong, I think) He marked himself with India ink. ...
— Davy and The Goblin - What Followed Reading 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' • Charles E. Carryl

... course mystery. Jack had obeyed the colonel's instructions to the letter. He had played many rounds on the links and had gotten to a certain degree of friendship with Jean Forette. He had even formed a liking for Bruce Garrigan, who, offhand, informed him that the amount of India ink used in tattooing sailors during the past year was less by fifteen hundred ounces than the total output of radium salts for 1916, while the wheat crop of Minnesota for the same period was 66,255 bushels. ...
— The Golf Course Mystery • Chester K. Steele

... enormous room, whose windows, opening on a garden that extended to the Seine, commanded one of the loveliest views in all Paris, the bridges, the Tuileries, the Louvre, interlaced with trees as black as if they were drawn in India ink on the wavering background of the mist. A broad, very low bed on a platform a few steps above the floor, two or three small lacquer screens with vague fanciful decorations in gold, denoting, as did the double doors and the heavy woollen carpet, a dread of cold carried to ...
— The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) • Alphonse Daudet

... prepared as in Experiment 26, or by igniting turpentine (C1OH16), naphtha, and various oils, and collecting the C of the smoke. It is used for making printers' ink, India ink, etc. A very pure variety ...
— An Introduction to Chemical Science • R.P. Williams

... table, Kitty left streams of India ink making her beastesses all tigers while she called to Miss Bryant, who was pounding ...
— The Bacillus of Beauty - A Romance of To-day • Harriet Stark



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