Meaning of inke | Babel Free

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of ink.

alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“Whoſe corage when the feend perceiud to ſhrinke, / She poured forth out of her helliſh ſinke / Her fruitfull curſed ſpawne of ſerpents ſmall, / Deformed monſters, fowle, and blacke as inke, / Which ſwarming all about his legs did crall, / And him encombred ſore, but could not hurt⟳ at all.”

“So it was, that the most of these aboue named goosequil braccahadocheos were meere cowards and crauens, and durst not so much as throw⟳ a penfull of inke into the enimies face⟳, if proofe were made, wherefore on the experience⟳ of their pusellanimitie I thought to raise⟳ the foundation of my roguerie.”

“While I was waiting for him in the Matted Gallery, a young man was most finely working in Indian inke the great picture of the King and Queen sitting [Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria of France], by Van Dyke [Anthony van Dyck]; and did it very finely.”

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