Crossword clues for inkstone
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inkstone \Ink"stone"\, n. A kind of stone containing native vitriol or sulphate of iron, used in making ink.
Wiktionary
n. A stone used by Chinese artists and calligraphers to grind dry ink and then to mix it with water.
Wikipedia
An inkstone is a stone mortar for the grinding and containment of ink.
In addition to stone, inkstones are also manufactured from clay, bronze, iron, and porcelain. The device evolved from a rubbing tool used for rubbing dyes dating around 6000 to 7000 years ago.
Usage examples of "inkstone".
She ground an inkstick onto an inkstone and used a medicine dropper to add salt water in doses the size of tears.
But when you push an inkstick along an inkstone, you take the first step to cleansing your mind and your heart.
She sat at her table, grinding the inkstick into the inkstone, thinking what, I could not guess.
I had admired that inkstone since the days when I first came to the school as his helper.
Who had the leisure and calm to sit around and grind ink on an inkstone, meditating over what to write?
The inkstone on the desk had the most perfect purple eye-spots I had ever seen, and Master Li said it was a genuine Tuan from Ling-lang Gorge.
She had dribbled some water from the well onto her inkstone and was now sitting on the walkway grinding ink.
Lavish gifts, however, were almost unheard of, so I'd accumulated nothing more over the years than a few scrolls, inkstones, and bowls, as well as a collection of-stereoscopic photos of famous views, with a lovely viewer made of sterling silver, which the Kabuki actor Onoe Yoegoro XVII had given to me.
When they finished, he rolled up the scrolls and capped the inkstones carefully.