Word Meanings - INKING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Supplying or covering with ink. Inking roller, a somewhat elastic roller,used to spread ink over forms of type, copperplates, etc. -- Inking trough or table, a trough or table from which the inking roller receives its ink.

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• TABLER
  1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson.
• SPREADINGLY
  , adv. Increasingly. The best times were spreadingly infected. Milton.
• TABLEAU VIVANT
  See 2
• TABLEMAN
  A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon.
• SUPPLYMENT
  A supplying or furnishing; supply. Shak.
• COVER-POINT
  The fielder in the games of cricket and lacrosse who supports "point."
• COVERLET
  The uppermost cover of a bed or of any piece of furniture. Lay her in lilies and in violets . . . And odored sheets and arras coverlets. Spenser.
• INKSTONE
  A kind of stone containing native vitriol or subphate of iron, used in making ink.
• COVERCLE
  A small cover; a lid. Sir T. Browne.
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• SUPPLY
  LL. suppletare, from L. supplere, suppletum; sub under + plere to 1. To fill up, or keep full; to furnish with what is wanted; to afford, or furnish with, a sufficiency; as, rivers are supplied by smaller streams; an aqueduct supplies an artificial
• INK
  The step, or socket, in which the lower end of a millstone spindle runs.
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• COVERT BARON
  Under the protection of a husband; married. Burrill.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• TABLESPOON
  A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
• COVERTNESS
  Secrecy; privacy.
• SPREAD-EAGLE
  Characterized by a pretentious, boastful, exaggerated style; defiantly or extravagantly bombastic; as, a spread-eagle orator; a spread-eagle speech.
• COVERER
  One who, or that which, covers.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• IMPALATABLE
  Unpalatable.
• MOUNTABLE
  Such as can be mounted.
• THINKING
  Having the faculty of thought; cogitative; capable of a regular train of ideas; as, man is a thinking being. -- Think"ing*ly, adv.
• JINK
  1. To move quickly, esp. with a sudden turn; hence, to dodge; to escape by a quick turn; --obs. or dial., except as a hunting term in pig-sticking. 2. In the games of spoilfive and forty-five, to win the game by taking all five tricks; also,
• MISINTERPRETABLE
  Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
• UNWARRANTABLE
  Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv.
• POSTABLE
  Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu.
• CLINKSTONE
  An igneous rock of feldspathic composition, lamellar in structure, and clinking under the hammer. See Phonolite.
• IMPREVENTABLE
  Not preventable; invitable.
• DRINKABLE
  Capable of being drunk; suitable for drink; potable. Macaulay. Also used substantively, esp. in the plural. Steele.
• ACCEPTABLE
  Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us.
• TINKER
  A small mortar on the end of a staff. A young mackerel about two years old. The chub mackerel. The silversides. A skate. (more info) his trade is to beat a kettle, or because in his work he makes a 1. A mender of brass kettles, pans, and other
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• INTESTABLE
  Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone.
• MARKETABLENESS
  Quality of being marketable.
• BLINK-EYED
  Habitually winking. Marlowe.
• COUNTABLE
  Capable of being numbered.
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.