(n.) The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
(n.) A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.
(n.) A pigment. See India ink, under India.
(v. t.) To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.
Example Sentences:
(1) She got it when Alyssa was born and her daughter’s name is inked in black just above her wrist.
(2) Histologically, the ink was noted within macrophages which aggregated around blood vessels.
(3) The root canal anatomy of 149 mandibular second molars was studied using a technique in which the pulp was removed, the canal space filled with black ink and the roots demineralized and made transparent.
(4) After visualization with an avidin-biotin alkaline phosphatase procedure, the blot is post-stained with India ink to visualize the protein pattern context.
(5) Twitter and Facebook were filling up with pictures of proud, defiant Afghans holding up fingers stained with ink.
(6) The media is utterly self-obsessed and we get more ink than perhaps we should do.
(7) The apical 5 to 6 mm of the filling materials were exposed to india ink for 48 hours.
(8) The unesterified resins are mainly used in paper size and the esters in printing inks, varnishes and adhesives.
(9) "It is a good idea," she noted in blue ink on the letter, "but not at that price.
(10) When my floor was dirty, I rose early, and, setting all my furniture out of doors on the grass, bed and bedstead making but one budget, dashed water on the floor, and sprinkled white sand from the pond on it, and then with a broom scrubbed it clean and white... Further - and this is a stroke of his sensitive, pawky genius - he contemplates his momentarily displaced furniture and the nuance of enchanting strangeness: It was pleasant to see my whole household effects out on the grass, making a little pile like a gypsy's pack, and my three-legged table, from which I did not remove the books and pen and ink, standing amid the pines and hickories ...
(11) The microvascularization of the sternum of the child has been studied by a method of India ink injection and by histology.
(12) The government is expected to borrow £165.7bn this year to balance the books, with further massive borrowing already inked in for future years.
(13) These are very accomplished people and they’ve never seen so much red ink on their copy.” And yet Ademo says he would welcome more submissions from scholars.
(14) The anatomy of the venous system was determined from observations of vascular casts in adult rats; the development of the vascular system was established by examination of ink-injected embryos.
(15) The pad is saturated with gentian violet ink which enables an ideal transfer of inked marks from the marker to the eye or skin.
(16) An immune Indian ink micro-agglutination method has been evolved for the detection of an antigen present in the blood associated with infectious hepatitis (called IHxAg).
(17) A version of the Stroop colour-word test was used, in which the words 'red' and 'green' were presented in the complementary coloured 'ink'.
(18) The transplants survived and at 7 days were able to entrap india ink particles, or particles of radioactive gold, injected in the distal part of the extremity.
(19) The staining sensitivity of directly blotted proteins is about 200 ng protein per band as revealed by India ink staining.
(20) Phagocytosis of India ink and nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT) reduction were revealed tend to be increased, but not exceeded significantly to normal range.
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Definition:
(n.) A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.