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▪ I. inky, a.|ˈɪŋkɪ|
Also 6 inckie, 7 inkie.
[f. ink n.1 + -y.]
1. Of or pertaining to ink; written with ink; using ink; literary. † inky divinity: cf. inken.
1581Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 61 Ouer-mastred by some thoughts, I yeelded an inckie tribute vnto them. 1593Shakes. Rich. II, ii. i. 64 England..is now bound in with shame, With Inky blottes, and rotten Parchment bonds. 1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. (1630) 537 The Scripture read or preached is a dead Letter, Inkie Diuinity. a1688Cudworth Immut. Mor. (1731) 185 He will see Heaven, Earth, Sun..in those Inky Delineations. 1858Hogg Life Shelley II. 163, I enlisted with a special pleader, and fought manfully under his inky banners. 1883Black Shandon Bells vii, You haven't been brought up in libraries and inky dens all your life.
2. Abounding with ink, full of ink.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 87 Th' inky Cuttles, and the Many-feet.
3. As black as ink; extremely black or dark.
1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 55 The Moone had..a blacke inky hood embayling her bright head. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. v. 46 Your inkie browes, your blacke silke haire. 1709Addison Tatler No. 131 ⁋9 He took up a little Cruit that was filled with a kind of Inky Juice. 1795Wolcott (P. Pindar) Pindariana Wks. 1812 IV. 178 Eternal foe of inky night. 1880Haughton Phys. Geog. v. 235 The largest river in the world takes its most remote origin..in a little inky tarn. 1888J. Inglis Tent Life Tigerland 337 Cautiously probing..the inky, oozy depths in front of him.
4. Of taste, etc.: Resembling that of ink.
1805W. Saunders Min. Waters 325 It has a strong astringent and inky taste.
5. Stained with ink.
1727Bailey vol. II, Inky, blotted with ink. 1837Dickens Pickw. xx, One of the gentlemen, in a brown coat and brass buttons, inky drabs, and bluchers. 1894Hall Caine Manxman v. ii. 285 The fingers of his right hand were then inky up to the first joint.
6. Comb., as inky-black, inky-looking adjs.; inky cap = ink-cap (ink n.1 4).
1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 649 The discharge is sometimes inky-black. 1875Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. iv. (ed. 2) 86 Small inky-looking clouds foretell rain. [1891M. C. Cooke Brit. Edible Fungi vi. 47 The ‘Inky Mushroom’ (Coprinus atramentarius) received that name because, when it becomes old, the gills melt away into a thick, black, inky fluid, which may be used as ink.] 1923J. Ramsbottom Handbk. Larger Brit. Fungi 81 One of the chief characteristics of Coprinus is the so⁓called ‘deliquescence’, which gives the popular name ‘inky cap’ to these fungi. 1967W. P. K. Findlay Wayside & Woodland Fungi 149 (heading) Coprinus: Inky Caps.
▪ II. inky, n.|ˈɪŋkɪ|
Colloq. abbrev. of incandescent lamp. Also ˈinkie.
1929Photoplay (Chicago) Apr. 31/2 Inkys, incandescent lights, the silent lights used for talking pictures in contrast to the old noisy arc lights. 1936C. B. DeMille in Words Oct. 6/2 An incandescent lamp is an ‘inkie’. 1959W. S. Sharps Dict. Cinematogr. 103/2 Inkie or Inkie-Dinkie, a small incandescent lighting unit used for local lighting. 1970T.V. Times (Austral.) 1 Apr. 8/3 Put a Ted Lewis on the Inky Dinky—insert a little, dented, pipe-like piece of tin in front of the small incandescent spot light to diffuse the beam. |