Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A bladder-shaped sac found in some dibranchiate cephalopods, containing a black and viscid fluid resembling ink, by ejecting which, in case of danger or pursuit, they can render the surrounding water opaque and thus conceal themselves.
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Examples
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Only a portion of the squid remained, and his ink-bag was emptier than ever.
The Financier 2004
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In the Calamaries and the Poulps the ink-bag is placed in the upper part of the body, in close proximity to the mytis, whereas in the Sepia it is lower down, against the stomach.
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On the outer surface of the mytis runs the intestine; and in contact with this latter is placed the ink-bag, so that it may be removed as far as possible from the mouth and its obnoxious fluid be kept at a distance from the nobler and sovereign part.
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He describes the funnel and its relation to the mantle-sac, and the ink-bag, which he shows to be largest in Sepia of all others.
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The sepia of the artist comes from a mollusk, and is the fossil or extant ink-bag of a cephalopod or squid, while the cuttle-fish bone is used for a variety of purposes.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 362, December 9, 1882 Various
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Only a portion of the squid remained, and his ink-bag was emptier than ever.
The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908
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Meanwhile, Bill had drawn out the ink-bag of the cuttle, had prepared a little round fragment of wood which he sharpened like a pencil by rubbing it against a stone, and had put a keen edge on to a long white fishbone that he had selected.
Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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He's a cuttle, that's what he is; and I'll have his ink-bag out of him in a brace of shakes; just the ticket for tattooing, Miss, as good as the best Indian-ink -- gunpowder is
Mr. Meeson's Will Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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"Oh! I know what that is -- all long legs and suckers, and got an ink-bag and a pen in its body."
Menhardoc George Manville Fenn 1870
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This sac is called the ink-bag, and the liquid is employed for the manufacture of the India ink.
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