The Collaborative International Dictionary
India \In"di*a\, n. [See Indian.] A country in Southern Asia; the two peninsulas of Hither and Farther India; in a restricted sense, Hither India, or Hindostan.
India ink, a nearly black pigment brought chiefly from China, used for water colors. It is in rolls, or in square, and consists of lampblack or ivory black and animal glue. Called also China ink. The true India ink is sepia. See Sepia.
India matting, floor matting made in China, India, etc., from grass and reeds; -- also called Canton matting or China matting.
India paper, a variety of Chinese paper, of smooth but not glossy surface, used for printing from engravings, woodcuts, etc.
India proof (Engraving), a proof impression from an engraved plate, taken on India paper.
India rubber. See Caoutchouc.
India-rubber tree (Bot.), any tree yielding caoutchouc, but especially the East Indian Ficus elastica, often cultivated for its large, shining, elliptical leaves.
Wikipedia
India ink (Indian ink in British English or Chinese ink) is a simple black or colored ink once widely used for writing and printing and now more commonly used for drawing and outlining, specially when inking comic books and comic strips. India ink is also used in medical applications.
Usage examples of "india ink".
With India ink, brush and pen, at first with pencil as well, he had done a whole pile of portraits and nudes, which were not in the least obscene and not half bad as art.
She smoothed out the first sheet carefully on the lid of her writing case, dipped her pen in the remaining half inch of India ink and headed the sheet with a hand that was calm and unshaken.
If they are fine-pointed draftsman's pens, then what Cantrell's drawn here is a firehose spraying India ink.
As permanent as India ink, the mark may remain with the person forever.
There I was at a party-the boring but dangerous kind, with fine china that you know you're going to break, and a tablecloth you're bound to spill India ink on-and do you know what happens?
There I was at a party-the boring but dangerous kind, with fine china that you know youre going to break, and a tablecloth youre bound to spill India ink on-and do you know what happens?
The artist worked in India ink with a fine pen and colored the desk with watercolors.
The ichor of eternity belongs to India ink and crow's blood, not to machines.
That done, the chopper tilts and vanishes into the night like a hockey puck sliding into a bowl of India ink.