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Definition of Chalky
1. Adjective. Composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk.
2. Adjective. Of something having the color of chalk. "She turned chalky white"
Definition of Chalky
1. a. Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
Definition of Chalky
1. Adjective. Consisting of or containing chalk. ¹
2. Adjective. Resembling chalk in any way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chalky
1. resembling chalk [adj CHALKIER, CHALKIEST]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chalky
Literary usage of Chalky
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Papers and Notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry Carvill Lewis, Henry William Crosskey (1894)
"Deeley is wrong in saying that two deposits occur here, the chalky boulder clay
... Section of Great chalky Boulder Clay, near Blaby Wharf Charnwood granite ..."
2. Biblical Researches in Palestine and the Adjacent Regions: A Journal of by Edward Robinson, Eli Smith (1856)
"We now kept on southeast across the tract of desolate chalky hills above described,
mostly along a winding valley. Nowhere had we seen a more ..."
3. The Iliad of Homer by Homer (1796)
"... chalky cliffs arife. Sprung from Pirithous of immortal race, 900 The fruit of
fair ... chalky ..."
4. The Great Ice Age and Its Relation to the Antiquity of Man by James Geikie (1894)
"Away from Cromer that deposit is represented by what is known as the great chalky
boulder- clay, which covers extensive areas in Lincoln, Norfolk, Suffolk, ..."
5. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1912)
"soft, chalky mineral of a cohesive nature, easily calcium borates, ... It is of
a soft chalky nature, purely white, can be easily nibbed to powder, ..."
6. General surgical pathology and therapeutics, in fifty lectures: In Fifty-one by Theodor Billroth (1879)
"of the chalky salts from the peripheral portions of the osseous framework in ...
by which it is started also begins with loss of chalky salts from the bone ..."
7. Clinical Lectures on Senile and Chronic Diseases by Jean Martin Charcot (1881)
"chalky concretions around joints.—Concretions in the substance of the skin. ...
Long ago it was known that in gouty people, tophi, chalky deposits, ..."
8. Universal Geography: Or a Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1831)
"By the same means, the present sterile sands of Sologne in the department of
Cher, and others in Brittany might be chalky cultivated. ..."
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