| 单词 | red chalk |
| 释义 | > as lemmasred chalk a. Applied to other earths resembling chalk. fuller's chalk: ? fuller's earth. In quot. 1658 probably = calx n. brown chalk: a name for umber. French chalk (see French adj. and n. Compounds 1b). red chalk: a bed of chalk of a deep red colour in Norfolk; also applied to ‘ruddle, a red argillaceous ore of iron’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon). black chalk (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > equipment for painting or drawing > [noun] > chalk or crayon chalk1481 pastel1612 crayonc1660 Conté1852 black chalk1854 sanguine1854 sumi1889 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 560 Sundry sorts of chaulkes for to scoure clothes, and namely the Tuckers earth. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 254 Mingled with fullers chaulke. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 911 The chaulk or salt of it..is..commended by Chymicks, and Chirurgeons, for to cure that kernell or tumour of flesh. 1854 Encycl. Brit. VI. 402/1 Black Chalk, a mineral used by artists for drawing. It is a variety of bituminous shale, the schiste-graphique of Haüy. 1886 J. W. Anderson Prospector's Handbk. 115 Black Chalk—a variety of clay containing carbon. 1889 N.E.D. at Chalk Mod. The section of the Red Chalk at Hunstanton. red chalk red chalk n. (a) red ochre, ruddle; (b) Geology (also Red Chalk) chalk of a red colour, occurring esp. in eastern England; a bed of such chalk. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > red or redness > red colouring matter > [noun] > earths as colouring matter red stoneeOE red eartheOE redding1292 raddlea1350 ruddle1353 rubric?1440 red ochre1481 sinoper1501 red1538 red chalk1538 sinople1548 terra sigillata1563 almagre1598 majolica1598 minium1613 orell1614 reddle1648 India red1668 Indian red1672 riddle1681 smit1728 Persian earth1735 red marl1748 abraum1753 Terra Sienna1760 tivera1825 kokowai1836 sinopia1844 sinopis1857 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Rubrica, red chalke, or ruddle wherwith shepe are marked. 1748 J. Hill Gen. Nat. Hist. I. 62 Indurated Clayey Ochre, called Red Chalk. 1820 Ann. Philos. 15 211 The fact of its containing pebbles..of red chalk, such as occurs in no part of the chalk of the south-east of England, but is common in the lower strata of this formation, in Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. 1837 J. D. Dana Syst. Mineral. 382 Under this species [sc. specular iron] must also be included..reddle or red chalk, the common drawing material. 1946 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery xviii. 204 In the northern basin the Lower Greensand is represented by the Speeton Clays, with ‘carstone’, succeeded by marls and the famous Red Chalk of Hunstanton and Lincolnshire. 2004 Tool & Machinery Catal. 2005 (Axminster Power Tool Centre Ltd.) xi. 13/2 An aluminium-cased chalk line supplied with 100 feet of cotton line and a 4oz bottle of red chalk. < as lemmas |
| 随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。