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Definition of Indelible ink
1. Noun. Ink that cannot be erased or washed away.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indelible Ink
Literary usage of Indelible ink
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1874)
"RED indelible ink. According to Dr. Eisner, an indelible liquid preparation for
marking clothing in red characters may be obtained by taking equal parts of ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1885)
"The face of this device may contain a plan or form for canceling with indelible
ink, like that shown at Fig. 2, or it may have any plan or form for that ..."
3. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1874)
"Brigg's indelible ink , ..$2.35 Clark's Indelible Pencil 2.00 ... Combination (Ink
and Pen) 5.00 Payson's indelible ink j.aj Stephen'« ..."
4. Journal by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain) (1858)
"No doubt an indelible ink would be, but certainly any logwood ink would be ...
1 am now engaged with experiments on indelible ink, and trust some future day ..."
5. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"It is also used in making indelible ink for marking linen. These salts have the
property of detonating with, or inflaming, charcoal, and other easily ..."
6. The Improved Housewife: Or Book of Receipts, with Engravings for Marketing by A. L. Webster (1855)
"indelible ink for Marking. Dissolve two drachms of lunar-caustic and half an ounce of
... indelible ink ..."
7. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1853)
"... with other suitable coloured solutions, to form an indelible ink ; such
colouring matter as is soluble in alkali will mix best with this composition. ..."
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