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ˈink-horn
Forms: see ink n.1
[f. ink n.1 + horn n. 12; cf. obs. Du. inkt-horn, enkt-horen (Kilian).]
1. A small portable vessel (originally made of a horn) for holding writing-ink: now seldom used. † to smell of the ink-horn, to be pedantic; term of inkhorn = ink-horn term 2 b.
1382Wyclif Ezek. ix. 11 The man that..hadde an enk⁓horn in his rigge. c1440Promp. Parv. 262/1 Inkehorne, attramentarium. 1463Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 229 Item, payd..for a pener and a ynkorne, iij. d. 1474Caxton Chesse 77 On his gurdel a penner and an ynk-horn. c1570Pride & Lowl. (1841) 30 Ne had they term of ink⁓horne ne of penne But plaine in speache. 1587Golding De Mornay xxvi. 396 Proclamations set foorth in such a stile,..smelling too much of the Inkehorne. 1687T. Brown Saints in Uproar Wks. 1730 I. 75 Children don't use to come into the world with their ink-horns and pocket-books about them. 1733Lady B—z in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 191 Two days ago I washed the mould out of my inkhorn, put fresh ink into it. c1850Arab. Nts. (Rtldg.) 253 He drew from a little writing-case..some paper, a cut cane, and an ink-horn. 1879Maclear Celts viii. 133 Literary apparatus, such as waxed tablets, styles, pens, and ink horns.
2. attrib.
a. † ink-horn fish, the ink-fish or cuttle-fish; † ink-horn mate, varlet contemptuous appellations for a scribbler.
1598Epulario H j b, To dresse an *Inke horne fish, in Latine Lolligo. 1635Swan Spec. M. (1670) 342 The Calamary..Some call him the Ink-horn-fish.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iii. i. 99 Ere that we will suffer such a Prince..To be disgraced by an *Inke-horne Mate, Wee..all will fight.
1820Lamb Elia Ser. i. Two Races Men, Your sour parochial or state-gatherers,—those *ink-horn varlets, who carry their want of welcome in their faces!
b. ink-horn term, a term of the literary language, a learned or bookish word; so also ink-horn desire, ink-horn language, ink-horn word. arch.
1543Bale Yet a Course 59 b, Soche are your Ynkehorne termes. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. xii[i]. (Arb.) 130 Irreuocable, irradiation, depopulation and such like,..which..were long time despised for inkehorne termes. 1589Greene Menaphon (Arb.) 51 Wherefore thoughe he had done it of an ink horne desire to be eloquent. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N. Test. Pref. (1638) 16 Faine to stuffe the text with such fustian, such inkehorne termes, as may seem to favour their parts. 1784Hutton Bran New Wark 6 Inkhorn words, to be honest, we knaw lile abaut. 1871Lowell Study W. (1886) 330 As if it were a spoken, and not merely an ink-horn language. 1872W. Minto Eng. Prose Lit. ii. ii. 235 Inkhorn words of Latin origin. |