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inking

verb

  1. gerund, participle, present present participle and gerund of ink

noun inkings

  1. countable, uncountable An application of ink. In a rotary printing-machine, a cylinder carrying a single relief design, means for imparting successive complete inkings to said design […]
  2. countable, uncountable Work done by an inker, one kind of commercial artist
  3. countable, uncountable Inputting text or drawings into a computer, tablet, or similar apparatus using a stylus.
  4. countable, uncountable A defensive activity where ink is released by squids, cuttlefish, etc. Mucus-rich ink is supposedly a dangerous or annoying substance that interferes with fish gills and some cephalopods react adversely to their own inkings in small containers or in the lab. The blue-ringed octopus Hapalochlaena lunulata has tetrodotoxin, the deadly toxin it also releases in a bite, in

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@misc{inking_2026,
  title = {inking},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/inking},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}