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chalky
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Consisting of or containing chalk. 2 Resembling chalk in any way.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chalky \Chalk"y\, a. Consisting of, or resembling, chalk; containing chalk; as, a chalky cliff; a chalky taste.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chalky (from Cor!! ) Merged with Buster issue dated 22 June 1974 A talented and super fast artist, Chalky would use his chalks on all surfaces, including Walls, fences, pavements, planks and even glass. In the early issues he is a very good character, by ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. composed of or containing or resembling calcium carbonate or calcite or chalk [syn: calcareous ] having the color of chalk; "she turned chalky white"
Usage examples of chalky.
Chalky white shells bearing the inverted contours of various automata were stacked along the walls.
These fishes, like the tortoise, the armadillo, the sea-hedgehog, and the Crustacea, are protected by a breastplate which is neither chalky nor stony, but real bone.
She reached for another chalky nodule of flint and her hammerstone, and struck the outer covering.
Jondalar picked up his hammerstone, an oval stone, dented and chipped from use, that fit comfortably in his hand, and began knocking off the balance of the chalky cortex in preparation for working it.
Why Arch preferred chalky, store-bought doughnuts to homemade baked goods was one of the mysteries of the ages.
Both were stripped to the waist, wearing nothing more than loincloths across their hips, leather greaves and arm-guards decorated with shells and feathers, and stripes of chalky paint that delineated the contours of their chests.
I walked over and touched a big gouge in the Sheetrock where the chalky center was pushing through.
On the cookie plate are always a few chocolate wafers, but the majority are chalky shortbreads that crumble into little pieces unless the whole thing is ingested at once.
It took a practiced eye to distinguish minor color variations in the chalky outer covering that pointed to high-quality, fine-grained flint.
With the hammerstone, Droog broke off the chalky gray outer covering exposing the dark gray flint underneath.
This time as he chipped off the chalky outer covering, he carefully shaped the stone so that the nucleus of flint remaining was a roughly flattened egg-shape.
On her way back, she saw a small, gray, chalky boulder near the creek.
It was sooty and charred, and the chalky outer cortex was a much deeper color when he cracked it open with a blow from a hammerstone.
He had used a specially shaped piece of fresh antler, strong and resilient enough to resist breaking, as a digger and a lever to pry out the exposed lump of hard silica from its chalky matrix.
More lumps of the hard flint encased in a white opaque crust jutted out from the somewhat less hard chalky stone.