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16 words match “INKY”

INKY a.
Consisting of, or resembling, ink; soiled with ink; black. "Inky blots." Shak. "Its inky blackness." Boyle.
CHINKY a.
Full of chinks or fissures; gaping; opening in narrow clefts. Dryden.
KINKY a. 2 definitions
Full of kinks; liable to kink or curl; as, kinky hair.
PINKY n.
See 1st Pink.
SLINKY a.
Thin; lank. [Prov. Eng. & U. S.]
ZINKY a.
See Zincky. Kirwan.
ATRAMENTACEOUS a.
Black, like ink; inky; atramental. [Obs.] Derham.
ATRAMENTAL; ATRAMENTOUS a.
Of or pertaining to ink; inky; black, like ink; as, atramental galls; atramentous spots.
BLOT n.
A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.
BROW n.
The hair that covers the brow (ridge over the eyes); the eyebrow. 'T is not your inky brows, your brack silk hair. Shak.
DIBRANCHIATA n.
An order of cephalopods which includes those with two gills, an apparatus for emitting an inky fluid, and either eight or ten cephalic arms bearing suckers or hooks, as the octopi and squids. See Cephalopoda.
FATISCENCE n.
A gaping or opening; state of being chinky, or having apertures. Kirwan.
INKINESS n.
The state or quality of being inky; blackness.
PINK n.
A vessel with a very narrow stern; -- called also pinky. Sir W. Scott. Pink stern (Naut.), a narrow stern.
WORSHIP n.
Obsequious or submissive respect; extravagant admiration; adoration. 'T is your inky brows, your black silk hair, Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, That can my spirits to your worship. Shak.
ZINCKY n.
, Pertaining to zinc, or having its appearance. [Written also zinky.]