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Finely prepared chalk, used as a drawing implement; also, by extension, a compound, as of clay and black lead, or the like, used in the same manner. See Crayon. Black chalk, a mineral of a bluish color, of a slaty texture, and soiling the fingers when handled; a variety of argillaceous slate. -- By a long chalk, by a…

Impure carbon prepared from vegetable or animal substances; esp., coal made by charring wood in a kiln, retort, etc., from which air is excluded. It is used for fuel and in various mechanical, artistic, and chemical processes.

That which promotes good spirits or cheerfulness; provisions prepared for a feast; entertainment; as, a table loaded with good cheer.

xing chrome yellow with Prussian blue. -- Chrome red, a beautiful red pigment originally prepared from the basic chromate of lead, but now made from red oxide of lead. -- Chrome yellow, a brilliant yellow pigment, PbCrO4, used by painters.

A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.

A photographic picture taken upon paper prepared by the use of a sensitive salt of iron and developed by the application of chloride of gold. Abney.

k, with the hammer raised and ready to fire; -- said of firearms, also, jocularly, of one prepared for instant action. -- At half cock. See under Half. -- Cock feather (Archery), the feather of an arrow at right angles to the direction of the cock or notch. Nares.

spun by the worm just before leaving the larval state. From these the silk of commerce is prepared.

A covered pot im which coffee is prepared,

A material for cordage, matting, etc., consisting of the prepared fiber of the outer husk of the cocoanut. Homans.

sensation produced by the escape of heat; chilliness or chillness. When she saw her lord prepared to part, A deadly cold ran shivering to her heart. Dryden.

ich have been acted on by light, a plate results from which impressions can be taken with prepared ink. The albertype, phototype, and heliotype are collotypes.

ncocting or preparing by combining different ingredients; also, the food or compound thus prepared.

Prepared as a confection. The biscuit or confectionary plum. Cowper.

Sweetmeats, in general; things prepared and sold by a confectioner; confections; candies.

Anything which is conserved; especially, a sweetmeat prepared with sugar; a confection. I shall . . . study broths, plasters, and conserves, till from a fine lady I become a notable woman. Tatler.

da and the West Indies, the Zamia integrifolia, from the stems of which a kind of sago is prepared.

Cotton prepared in sheets or rolls for quilting, upholstering, and similar purposes.

e; solicitation of woman to marriage. This method of courtship, [by which] both sides are prepared for all the matrimonial adventures that are to follow. Goldsmith.

crams; esp., one who prepares a pupil hastily for an exxamination, or a pupil who is thus prepared. Dickens.