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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See ink.

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Examples

  • Some of the compounds of silver possess this faculty to a remarkable degree, -- as the common indelible marking-ink, (a solution of nitrate of silver,) which soon darkens in the light, shows us every day.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859 Various

  • It was a corner grocery; advertisements for cheap butter and eggs, painted in green marking-ink upon wrapping paper, stood about on the sidewalk outside.

    McTeague 1920

  • My aunt took so kindly to the notion, that some ready-made clothes, which were purchased for me that afternoon, were marked “Trotwood Copperfield, ” in her own handwriting, and in indelible marking-ink, before I put them on; and it was settled that all the other clothes which were ordered to be made for me (a complete outfit was bespoke that afternoon) should be marked in the same way.

    XIV. My Aunt Makes up Her Mind about Me 1917

  • My aunt took so kindly to the notion, that some ready-made clothes, which were purchased for me that afternoon, were marked 'Trotwood Copperfield', in her own handwriting, and in indelible marking-ink, before I put them on; and it was settled that all the other clothes which were ordered to be made for me (a complete outfit was bespoke that afternoon) should be marked in the same way.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • It was not much that he was able to see of her; for there, also, every one was busy with needles and thread and with marking-ink, and she sat bending over her work.

    Chapter VIII 1917

  • To all of these, abruptly and with ceremony, Mr. George Bross, shipping clerk, introduced himself: a brawny young man in shirt-sleeves, wearing a visorless cap of soiled linen, an apron of striped ticking, pencils behind both angular red ears, and a smudge of marking-ink together with a broad irritating smile upon a clownish countenance.

    The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • That gentleman, having some time since despaired of any response to his persistent baiting, was now preoccupied with a hand-mirror and endeavours to erase the smudge of marking-ink from his face by means of a handkerchief which he now and again moistened in an engagingly natural and unaffected manner.

    The Day of Days An Extravaganza Louis Joseph Vance 1906

  • It is an expensive hat, by Lincoln and Bennett, and I see you have judiciously written your name in indelible marking-ink on the lining.

    John Thorndyke's Cases related by Christopher Jervis and edited by R. Austin Freeman 1902

  • It was a corner grocery; advertisements for cheap butter and eggs, painted in green marking-ink upon wrapping paper, stood about on the sidewalk outside.

    McTeague 1899

  • "Because on the other days you forgot to bring home the marking-ink."

    Eliza Barry Pain 1896

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