Ink-well
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Ink-well is a noun meaning Alternative spelling of inkwell.
Meaning
Alternative spelling of inkwell.
Example Sentences
Having learned in this way how to dip his pen, the pupil should next dip it in his ink-well and write.
For what makes happy the one we adore makes us happy; what not, not; the universe is a void, an ink-well otherwise.
(If Mr. Crawford has any more tales of lonely parishes in his ink-well, more than one of his readers would be grateful if he would write them out.) Just now the ink-well appears to need replenishing, for “Fair Margaret” is dry and dreggy.
In the library a lamp stood on a tripod of hooves, once those of a deer, and on the writing-table, furnished with the thickest of inlaid writing-papers, was an ink-well made from another, larger hoof, perhaps that of the moose in the hall, king of all these relics.
Word Forms
- ink-wells
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