bechalk

Definitions

To cover with chalk, or whiten as if with chalk.

archaic

Examples

“Let⟳ fear give⟳ worse intelligence through your eyes, Make⟳ pale your lips, and so bechalk your cheeks That he shall stare⟳ as wild!”

“...but there must be luxury in the glare of lustres to a man who has drudged at his desk by the light⟳ of a tallow candle, and how much handsomer must a floor appear⟳ to him when splendidly bechalked by a capital designer, than when besprinkled with a watering pot by a slipshod apprenticel”

“Not only do blue or red bills in windows indicate⟳ committee rooms, but the politically-minded town-youth expresses his sympathies or antipathies on the' mouldering walls of ancient colleges, which are bechalked with exhortations to vote⟳ for Hall or Fyife.”

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