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Definition of Ink
Ink
The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.

A fluid, or a viscous material or preparation of various kinds (commonly black or colored), used in writing or printing.

A pigment. See India ink, under India.

To put ink upon; to supply with ink; to blacken, color, or daub with ink.

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The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.
Milton Friedman

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
George Orwell

For several days after my first book was published, I carried it about in my pocket and took surreptitious peeps at it to make sure the ink had not faded.
James M. Barrie

No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
James Joyce

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.
William J. Clinton

Memory is more indelible than ink.
Anita Loos

The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible.
Vladimir Nabokov

It was said of old Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, that she never puts dots over her I s, to save ink.
Horace Walpole

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.
Robert Anton Wilson



Ink Translations
ink in Dutch is inkt
ink in Finnish is muste
ink in French is encre
ink in German is Tinte
ink in Hungarian is tinta
ink in Italian is inchiostro
ink in Norwegian is blekk, blekk
ink in Portuguese is tinta
ink in Spanish is tinta


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