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English
Noun
inke (countable and uncountable, plural inkes)
- Obsolete spelling of ink.
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 22, page 9:Whoſe corage when the feend perceiud to ſhrinke, / She poured forth out of her helliſh ſinke / Her fruitfull curſed ſpawne of ſerpents ſmall, / Deformed monſters, fowle, and blacke as inke, / Which ſwarming all about his legs did crall, / And him encombred ſore, but could not hurt at all.
1594, Thomas Nash, The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton:So it was, that the most of these aboue named goosequil braccahadocheos were meere cowards and crauens, and durst not so much as throw a penfull of inke into the enimies face, if proofe were made, wherefore on the experience of their pusellanimitie I thought to raise the foundation of my roguerie.
1667 May 6 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 26th, 1667”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys , volume VI, London: George Bell & Sons ; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1895, →OCLC, page 285:
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