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Having the qualities of chalk;abounding with chalk; chalky; as, cretaceous rocks and formations. See Chalk. Cretaceous acid, an old name for carbonic acid. -- Cretaceous formation (Geol.), the series of strata of various kinds, including beds of chalk, green sand, etc., formed in the Cretaceous period; -- called also…

In a chalky manner; as chalk.

Chalky; cretaceous. [Obs.] Ash.

To decompose into integrant parts; as, chalk rapidly disintegrates.

of natural objects, but for effect only, and produced with hard material such as pencil, chalk, etc.; delineation; also, the figure or representation drawn.

the south of England, to weatherworn, rough pillars of gray sandstone scattered over the chalk downs, but in other countries generally in the form of circles, or in detached pillars.

s, a shallow iron kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals. -- Dutch pink, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in distemper, and for paper staining. etc. Weale. -- Dutch rush (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum (E. hyemale) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used for scouring and pol…

purple pigment. -- French casement (Arch.) See French window, under Window. -- French chalk (Min.), a variety of granular talc; -- used for drawing lines on cloth, etc. See under Chalk. -- French cowslip (Bot.) The Primula Auricula. See Bear's-ear. -- French fake (Naut.), a mode of coiling a rope by running it bac…

One who eats earth, as dirt, clay, chalk, etc.

The green mineral characteristic of the greensand of the chalk and other formations. It is a hydrous silicate of iron and potash. See Greensand.

A disease of cornstalks. See Corn fly, under Corn. Cout stones. See Chalkstone, n., 2.

for producing a design upon a surface in relief so that it can be printed from. Prepared chalk or oxide of zinc is pressed upon a smooth plate by a hydraulic press, and the design is drawn upon this in a peculiar ink which hardens the surface wherever it is applied. The surface is then carefully rubbed or brushed, leav…

Not soluble; in capable or difficult of being dissolved, as by a liquid; as, chalk is insoluble in water.

A more or less threadlike mark of pen, pencil, or graver; any long mark; as, a chalk line.

A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.

A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

n the fact that the friction between a metallic point and a moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, on which it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between the point and the moving surface. -- Mo`to*graph"ic (#), a.

A term applied to the lowest deposits of the Cretaceous or chalk formation of Europe, being the lower greensand.

with other or or for its correlative (as either . . . or are now used). [Obs.] Other of chalk, other of glass. Chaucer.